3com vortex on dell crashing with Linux

[Richard Black]

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kjd@duda.org said:

> Hi there,
> I have a bunch of Dells (Dimension XPS T500) with 3com vortex running
> RedHat-6.1 (kernel 2.2.12) experiencing the same symptoms you
> described last August in
>
>       http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-vortex-bug/1999-Aug/0028.html
>
> (I've included the full text you wrote below).
>
> I get a crash every few days.  The current solution I'm considering is
> to throw away all my 3com nics.
>
> Did you ever track this one down?  Do you have any suggestions?

Yes. I did track it down, and I also provided a fix to the vortex bug list, 
but the fix has not been incorporated.  My fix works.  Before it each machine 
had a crash every one or two days.  Since I wrote the patch below I have not 
had a single crash -- 106 days uptime.

> Thanks very much for any help you can provide, 

Patches to version 3c59x.c:v0.99L 5/28/99 below.

Enjoy.

Richard.


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