[vortex] System freeze with 3com 3CXFE575CT

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Florian Reichert wrote:

> Using my 3com Cardbus Card my System often freezes, that means nothing
> works, no Ctrl-Alt-F1 Switch to Console, no Sys Req, no reboot. I have
> to switch the System off an reboot. This behavior seems to be not to
> be reproducible. Sometimes it happens direct after a fresh reboot,
> sometimes it happens after Suspend -- resume. It doesn't matter wether
> using a Web Browser under X or fetchmail from Console. 
...
> Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.33
>   kernel build: 2.4.18-bf2.4 unknown
...
>   Toshiba ToPIC95-B rev 07 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:02, mem 0x10000000
> cs: cb_alloc(bus 21): vendor 0x10b7, device 0x5257
> 3c59x.c:v0.99Q 5/16/2000 Donald Becker, becker@scyld.com
>   http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html

It's pretty difficult to debug this type of problem.
There isn't a specific, known problem with this driver release.
But you might try a more recent driver.

> eth0: 3Com 3CCFE575CT Tornado CardBus at 0x800,  00:00:80:60:10:90, IRQ 11
>   product code 'ZE' rev 10.0 date 12-22-00

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