The de4x5 driver crashed on me twice today (on a 2 CPU x86 box); The network went down for no visible reason (nothing in syslog or on the console). The network card is a 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41) Subsystem: Compu-Shack: Unknown device 4235) Subsystem: Unknown device 4942:4c4c I/O ports at b800 [size=64] Shutting down networking, removing the module and re-inserting it produces: eth0: DC21143 at 0xd000 (PCI bus 0, device 11), h/w address 00:00:cb:56:48:9b, eth0: Using generic MII device control. If the board doesn't operate, please mail the following dump to the author: MII device address: 5 MII CR: 3000 MII SR: 7809 MII ID0: 15 MII ID1: f430 MII ANA: 1e1 MII ANC: 0 MII 16: 158 MII 17: 608 MII 18: 10 and requires IRQ10 (provided by PCI BIOS). de4x5.c:V0.545 1999/11/28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: media is 100Mb/s. and eth0: DC21143 at 0xd000 (PCI bus 0, device 11), h/w address 00:00:cb:56:48:9b, eth0: Using generic MII device control. If the board doesn't operate, please mail the following dump to the author: MII device address: 5 MII CR: 3000 MII SR: 7809 MII ID0: 15 MII ID1: f430 MII ANA: 1e1 MII ANC: 0 MII 16: 158 MII 17: 408 MII 18: 10 and requires IRQ17 (provided by PCI BIOS). de4x5.c:V0.545 1999/11/28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: media is 100Mb/s. LLaP bero - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/