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Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> Robert Williams wrote:
> >
> > Is there a known problem with the tulip ethernet driver
> > for axp/PC164?  (running RedHat 6.1)
>
> There is now identified a long standing problem with a tulip driver (and
> other, like eepro100, for example) on all platforms.  A circular list of
> skbufs may get empty why it should not be and this results in an attempt
> by your kernel to dereference the address 0 which translates to crash.
> For some reasons you are seem more likely to see that condition with
> current 2.2 kernels but you need a pretty heavy net traffic for that.

These systems freeze up with no network traffic, no wire connected.
All you need is the tulip card installed.

> Tulip fixes were included in 2.2.14; eepro100 will show up in 2.2.15.

I see that 2.2.13 includes a new tulip driver (tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99),

the same one included in 2.2.14.
Where are the Tulip fixes included?  In the hardware detection?


Bob Williams