Re: 3C59x Problem in 2.2.16

[Alan Cox]

> using a 3Com 3C905B Cyclone  (3Com's Fast EtherLink XL 10/100/BNC/AUI network
> card).  It doesn't seem to be a network problem - I have one other machine
> running 2.2.15 with the same type of card, and there are no problems.  Has
> anyone else seen this?  Is there a fix?

Does 2.2.15 on the machine with 2.2.16 problems also behave nicely ?
If 2.2.15 is fine then you can copy the 3c59x.[ch] from 2.2.15 into 2.2.16
and build a hybrid kernel quite safely. 

We try very hard to avoid breaking the API in a stable tree - this is one
reason why