Very Computer

Dear All

I am running Slackware96 Linux installed from the book and its
accompanying CDs

I have an Intel Etherexpress 16C card I have it configured with the
eexpress driver module loaded in rc.modules on IRQ 9 and base i/o 0x0210. I
actually have access to the outside world but it is not very fluid. I
would say every 3 minutes I get the following message

eth0: CU Wedged status 0240 0000 resetting.......

then the computer hangs and if you are lucky it resets and you
continue if you are not (which is more often) then you are crashed out
for good.

My link light goes out on my ethernet card as well

Has anyone any suggestions?

David

The driver for the Etherexpress 16C card is an Alpha driver.  The docs on it suggest
that you might expect flakey behavior.  We have several linux boxes here and originally
tried to use the EtherExpress cards in them.

Some worked fine, others exhibited the problem you describe.  The machine I am typing this
from, when it had an EtherExpress card installed, world rarely run for more than 30
minutes without porducing that error and*.

Our solution: We replaced the EtherExpress cards.  We are using NE2000 clones now with
no problems.  You can get generic NE2000 clones for $20.00 these days and they work well
under Linux.  At that price, I saw no reason to keep screwing around with the EtherExpress
cards.

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