etherpowerII - episode 57328

[Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

BERND.STURM@xxxxxxxxxxxx <BERND.STURM@xxxxxxxxxxxx> écrit :
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> And something else: we use a SMC Etherpower II in one of our computers and
> the driver for this card seems to be broken in 2.4.7 (it locks the system as
> soon as you try a ping or the card is pinged from another machine) (in the
> newsgroup for epic100-driver on www.sycld.com some other people already
> reported this problem and said that the driver was still ok until 2.4.2, so
> i also used the epic100-driver from 2.4.1 together with 2.4.7-kernel and
> also tried a driver directly from SMC and both worked)

The hard lockup without any message is something new :o(

Could you:
- specify the URL of the driver from SMC you used 
- specify your hardware/mobo
- lspci -x/dmesg/lsmod
- insmod epic100 debug=5, ping again

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Ueimor