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From: "Mr. Big" <mrbig@sneaker.sch.bme.hu>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels
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> > benn compiled into the kernel, and not as a module) always gave the
> > errors:
> > 
> > eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050  0090 at 134704418/134704432 
> > eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter...
> 
> Known problem. This one might be fixed in current 2.2.18pre. SOme people
> see it some dont
Ok, we're on the way to try to avoid the use of that ethernet card anyway

> 
> > mistake... But we couldn't go back to oldier kernels (because of the Mylex
> > card) so the only possibility is to go forward: we compiled the
> > 2.4.0-test11 kernel. It could be usefull also because of the khttpd, at
> > least we could free up some memory used by the apache.
> 
> You can copy the 2.2.17 updated mylex driver into 2.2.14 and rebuild a kernel
> that way. In fact that would be a good test

Ok, I'll try. Since I'm not a kernel developer, I have the fool question,
wether it is enough to overwrite the .c and .h files in the 2.2.14 source
tree, or do I need to apply other changes too?


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