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To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>,
        "Ronny T. Lampert (EED)" <Ronny.Lampert@eed.ericsson.se>,
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From: Joe Korty <l-k@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: 3c59x driver: card not responding after a while
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At 09:59 AM 6/3/02 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
>"Ronny T. Lampert (EED)" wrote:
>
> > I'm having (reproducable) problems with the 3c59x driver; after a while
> > (depends on card/traffic), the card doesn't send nor receive anymore.
> >
>I see this too.  I always thought it was the less-than-perfect ABIT BP6
>loosing an irq or something.  (odd that it _always_ is the NIC that goes
>though...)  I also have a k6 with the same NIC, and another
>UP machine at work.  They never fail this way.
>Could it be a SMP problem?



Try increasing max_interrupt_work from 32 to 128 (located in 
drivers/net/3c59x.c).
Joe

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