natsemi.c (Netgear FA311 card) probmlems??

Troy Benjegerdes (hozer@drgw.net)
Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:53:40 -0600


Is anyone succesfully using a FA311 card (or anthing with a NatSemi
DP83815 chip?)

The natsemi.c driver in 2.4.0 (and the one from Donald Becker's site
for 2.2.x)

Something seems to be handled incorrectly in the driver, because whenever
I subject the card to moderate to heavy load (nfs does this most often),
I get errors about 'eth0: something Wicked Happened 0700'.

And usually after this happens a couple of times, the driver/card gets
wedged and won't send/receive any more packets.

The fa31lx70 driver from Netgear's web site at least doesn't get wedged,
but has really poor perfomance under heavy load.

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