From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker) Subject: Re: 0.99pl8 ATI Ultra, and ethernet drivers Date: Sun, 2 May 1993 02:37:22 GMT
In article <1993Apr27.192248.8808@mtu.edu> devmorfo@mtu.edu (Evmorfopoulos Dimitris) writes:
...
> Second is the ethernet drivers that come as a patch with the new SLS. They
>work great, I love them, but ever since I installed them in the kernel, I lost
>the ability to reboot my machine. Something somewhere somehow is not shuting down
>the drivers.
The fix (if verified) should be in the next version of the ethercard
drivers.
It's not _really_ the drivers fault;->. The BIOS is upset that the
ethercard's shared memory doesn't have a parity bit. The solution
appears to be switching from 16-bit mode back to 8-bit mode after each
shared-memory transfer. It takes a little longer to do this, but
it'll be worth the reduction in bug reports.
-- Donald Becker becker@super.org Supercomputing Research Center 17100 Science Drive, Bowie MD 20715 301-805-7482