Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:39:09 -0700 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Athlon Gigabyte GA-7IX mainboard is unstable with 3Com ethernet-cards, partially solved |
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Moritz Franosch writes: > We use an AMD Athlon K7 processor with a Gigabyte GA-7IX mainboard. > > During transferring about 100 MB over the network by NFS the system > locked totally (you could not ping it, the keyboard LEDs did not react, > you could not switch virtual consoles). > > This was the case for both 3Com 3c900 Boomerang and 3Com 3c905C > Tornado ethernet cards using the 3c59x driver. We tried the kernels > 2.2.12, 2.2.13 and 2.3.31 without success. > An SMC Ultra ISA ethernet card worked stable.
I've set up a GA-7IX system with 3c905B and have transferred a few tens of GiBytes. I've had no lockups. Kernels 2.3.28, 2.3.31 and 2.3.33.
Regards,
Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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