[tulip] tulip with conexant chip also breaks under load with a presario 1211

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Bernard Cafarelli wrote:

> Subject: [tulip] tulip with conexant chip also breaks under load with a
>     presario 1211
>
> Well I guess it's the same chipset as in the 1700 (previous post:
> tulip for presario 1700 with connexant chip breaks under load ). The
> "Waiting for Tx to finish" is now a dreaded message for me, because I
> can't use vnc for more than 10 minutes. If I shut down seti@home I get
> maybe 2 minutes more (the computer is colder), but sometimes the
> network card is useless (maybe 2 seconds before the Tx message
> reappears).
>
> Is there a small hope in solving this problem? (I have to make a HEAVY
> use of VNC those days for work)
>
> Note: tulip-0.92wax driver on a 2.4.17 kernel

Have you tried the driver from scyld.com?  My primary machine is a 1700T
laptop, so the driver gets daily use.


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