On Fri, 24 August 2001, Donald Becker wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:50:25PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.9 so I would have support for the > > > netgear fa311 NIC, specifically the natsemi driver. > > You didn't need to upgrade your kernel. > http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html > ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/natsemi.c > I had problems with this before I upgraded the kernel, I couldn't compile the driver.
> > However, it is > > > behaving strangely. I repeatedly get the error message: > > > > > > eth1: Something Wicked Happened! 18000 > > Hmmm, the Rx status steck overflowed. > I don't see this with my driver release. > This is very unusual -- either the driver misconfigured the chip, or the > chip couldn't get any PCI bus bandwidth to transfer Rx descriptors. > > As usual, my primary reply is that I don't support modified drivers. If > you touch it, you should be willing to test and maintain the whole > driver. > I will debug problems that you can reproduce on an original driver. > I haven't modified the driver. I got it with everything else when I downloaded and compiled the 2.4.9 kernel. I'll go through the webpage steps, but if you can tell me what to look for relating to that error message and how I should fix it I'd appreciate it. > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for ICQmail at http://www.icq.com/icqmail/signup.html
