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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