Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-07,: Re: 3c575_cb port to 2.3.44

# Re: 3c575_cb port to 2.3.44

Pau Aliagas (pau@readysoft.es)
Sun, 13 Feb 2000 23:15:25 +0100 (CET)

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On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Jakob Østergaard wrote:

> I've ported the 3c575_cb driver to 2.3.44pre8. It now works, and
> it works as well as it has ever done for me. But it does not
> seem to be completely stable. I'm not sure whether it's my hardware
> or a driver bug, but if it's the latter I'm pretty sure that bug has
> always been there, because this card has never worked 100% for me.

I can confirm it's been there at least since RH6.1 2.2.12.

> The card/driver will lock up on FTP transfers (large bandwith) but
> will run a ping -f without problems.

Yes.

> It seems that there's a problem when the Tx queue fills, which may
> be introduced by my port. I'll look at that. But I would be
> *VERY* interested in hearing results from other people with that
> card. If you have the card and can spare a moment of your time,
> could you please try out this patch ? Thanks,

It's very easy to trigger using mc ftp transfer, not easy with ncftp.
If you move several Mb from one machine to antother it simply hangs.
If you stop and start the interface the transfer goes on.

Pau

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