Freezing problem with 3C 3c905B and 3c59x.c:v0.99E driver

[Alok Mathur]

Hello,

As an update, with many thanks to Brian Winters and Shon Martin for 
their helpful responses, my freezing problems appear to have been
fixed after updating to the 3c59x.c:v0.99L 5/28/99 driver.

However, based on an initial look, it appears that the overall
data transfer rate from the machine seems to have dropped quite a
bit. I am not completely sure of this, but iptrafx shows me lower
transfer rates (it appeared to have peaked at about 4Mbits/sec as
opposed to the 9.5Mbits/sec rate I saw earlier) for the same scenario.

Any thoughts on the possible slower data transfer?

Best Regards,


Alok.

> Hi,
> 
> I have run into trouble several times while trying to tar a *large*
> (about 300MB) file sitting at a remote HP host, and tarring to a
> hard drive nfs mounted from the Linux server.
> 
> Basically, my network gets completely saturated (I used iptrafx to
> monitor, and saw transfer rates of 9.5Mbps), and then all my
> machines that mount the Linux server disks, freeze.
> 
> The relevant messages reported by dmesg on bootup are as follows:
> 
> Linux version 2.0.35 (root@porky.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Jul 14
> 3:56:39 EDT 1998
> kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker
> eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xe400, 00:50:04:05:3a:7d, IRQ 10



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