On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 13:40, Iain Rae wrote:
see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98767
basically the cards lock up when kudzu is run during the boot process
and the machine has to be power-cycled to get them back into a working
condition. It seems to be limited to the 905, the B's and C's seem to
work fine, also the 905's themselves seem to work fine with the 2.6 kernel.
I've kind of worked round the problem, my work has just thrown out a
bunch of PC's with 905b's in them and I retrieved the cards from the
dustbin,
Looks like the problem will be around for a while then, if noone cares
to fix it. Don't know how many cards it affect though, could be the
number of 905a cards is limited.
> The Realtek cards are ok, but a bit broken by design (the driver
works
>around that, but don't be surprised when your logs show "hanging
>transceiver reset" or other vague messages.
>
AFAICR they're not very high performance cards either.
They generate more processor overhead, but the network performance is
about equal to the 3com cards as far as I've seen. For a server with
multiple interfaces I'd choose another brand.
Klaasjan