Linksys Etherfast 10/100 Card problem?

[Jason Thomas]

I think someone else mentioned this on the list only a few days ago.
not sure what the outcome was....

check back through the archive

Win Heagy [wheagy@erols.com] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to the list.  I recently purchased the Linksys
> Fast Ethernet starter kit.  It came with two PCI 10/100
> cards based on the PNIC chips.  I am using (as recommended by
> Linksys) the tulip driver dated tulip.c:v0.91 4/14/99.
> The other machine currently on the network is a notebook using
> a Linksys PCMCIA 10/100 card.  On the desktop machine (90 mhz Pentium),
> I compiled the tulip driver into the kernel (2.0.36).  The network 
> works well for about 20 or 30 minutes and then starts to slow down
> until it eventually locks requiring a reboot of the desktop machine.
> I usually notice this when using the notebook machine and
> running a telnet session to the desktop and piping a Netscape
> session back to the notebook display.  The X server on the notebook
> becomes unresponsive.  If I exit the X server, I can still 
> use the notebook, but get extremely slow response over the 
> network to the desktop machine.  If I reboot the desktop, 
> performance returns to normal for a period of time and then the above
> starts over again.
> 
> I tried Linksys tech support and their answer was to ask on this list.
> Sort of strange tech support.  Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions,
> I would greatly appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Win
> 
> wheagy@erols.com

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