[tulip] Bug in the starfire driver in 2.4.0-testxx ?

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Thu, 14 Dec 2000 01:40:01 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Vidar [ISO-8859-1] Haugsvær wrote:

> On my newly installed 2 CPU server with redhat-7.0 I have two Adaptec
> quartet64 (ANA-62044) ethernet cards. Using the 2.4.0-testxx kernel I
> get this kernel error for something that looks like every single packet
...
> eth0: Internal fault: The skbuff addresses do not match 	in
> netdev_rx: 922368017 vs. f6fa3800 / f6fa3810.
...
> Does the starfire.c driver compile and work reliable with 2.2.x kernels?

This is a bug in the 2.4.0-test kernel.
The starfire driver works fine on the 2.2.* kernels.

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