tulip ethernet driver problems
Chris Hipp
fedora at christoph.msbx.net
Thu Nov 13 18:20:02 UTC 2003
Unfortunately, this does not seem to be my problem. Disabling graphical
boot does not stop my computer from freezing.
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 03:19, Trevor Barton wrote:
> Chris Hipp wrote:
> > I have a Netgear fa310tx rev. 2 chipset ethernet card. Installation
> > automatically configured and loaded the tulip driver for this card.
> > However, using this card causes my system to freeze hard (must be reset
> > using hardware button.) So much as pinging my computer kills it. I
> > switched to using the tulip_old driver and stability increased somewhat,
> > it doesn't freeze instantly but eventually does. This card worked
> > perfectly in Redhat 9.0. I have a clean Fedora Core 1 installation.
> >
> > I need help resolving this problem or gathering more useful debugging
> > information.
>
> There is a thread "FC1 pcmcia network card failure" in which I and someone else
> have had problems with a Netgear card - a different card and different problem
> but the same driver. This was resolved by removing the graphical boot option by
> setting GRAPHICAL=no in /etc/sysconfig/init. There may be a problem where some
> of the memory used by the ethernet card is later reused by X, which in our case
> was stopping the card from working. It's equally possible that that could kill
> the machine. Try that solution and see if it works.
>
> Trev
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