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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:09:01 +0200 (CEST)
From: Bas Vermeulen <bvermeul@blackstar.nl>
To: Juan Quintela <quintela@mandrakesoft.com>
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On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Juan Quintela wrote:

> In my experience, that bug is related with acpi.  In a kernel compiled
> without acpi, the card works perfectly, in a kernel compiled with acpi
> it depend on the phase of the moon and similar things :(
> 
> The driver for some reason sets too much 1.  I have one of my machines
> conected using dhcp, and it almost never got the right address the
> first boot (a reset _usually_ fix the problem, not always).  Some
> times, only some bits are set in the mac address, I think that a
> couple of times, I have got a MAC with all FF in the address.  
> 
> Worse still is the fact, that sometimes it is not the MAC address what
> is afected, it is also the vendor ip/product id, that makes that the
> driver is not recognized by the driver module.
> 
> I have tried both, the standard driver and the 3com "official" driver,
> both have that problem.  I already informend Andrew Grover about the
> problem, but he is not sure what is happening.
> 
> Later, Juan "wondering what sane network card's are still on the market".

I've never had too many problems with one of the cheapest around,
a realtek 8139. Not sure if you want to use them in a server, but
in most of my desktops they work great.

Bas Vermeulen

-- 
"God, root, what is difference?" 
	-- Pitr, User Friendly

"God is more forgiving." 
	-- Dave Aronson

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