Re: 3c59x driver: card not responding after a while

[Helge Hafting]

"Ronny T. Lampert (EED)" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having (reproducable) problems with the 3c59x driver; after a while
> (depends on card/traffic), the card doesn't send nor receive anymore.
> 
I see this too.  I always thought it was the less-than-perfect ABIT BP6
loosing an irq or something.  (odd that it _always_ is the NIC that goes
though...)  I also have a k6 with the same NIC, and another
UP machine at work.  They never fail this way.
Could it be a SMP problem?

> If you do a /etc/init.d/network restart (or ifconfig eth0 down ;
> ifconfig eth0 ... up), the card works again.

That never helped me - "shutdown -r now" is my way to recovery.
The card driver is compiled in, perhaps I should try 
making it modular and unload/reload.

Helge Hafting