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- On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Ian Molton wrote:
- > I have an Acorn SCSI 1 and an Acorn Ethernet 1 card (the one with no rom
- > drivers).
-
- I have an Ether1 myself. The card, and the RiscOS driver are both
- horrendous, and I find that when the card decides it's being overtaxed,
- it takes out RiscOS a crashes it completely (ie mouse-stops-moving style
- crash). I have a similar problem under linux with the driver, but it
- doesn't take out the OS (cos linux is clever like that) and just kills
- the ether1 til the next reboot.
-
- As far as I can tell, the problem lies in the armlinux ether1 driver not
- resetting the card properly. I've tried hacking about with the driver,
- comparing it with the RiscBSD driver (which, AFAICR, resets it properly),
- but I've had no luck yet (though I've only had time to spend a few hours
- on it so far). So far the only thing I've managed is to utterly nuke the
- machine while booting ;-).
-
- That said, the current ether1 driver will serve you much better than its
- RiscOS equivalent. Even though the card won't reset after it's entered
- confused mode it won't take your machine out with it. Also, linux is FAR
- better suited to a networked environment than RiscOS - basically if you
- need a machine to run on a network, a unix box is the top choice.
-
- Hope this helps,
- Phil
-
- --
- Rule of programming #2: Everything that can go wrong will go wrong,
- but only on other people's configurations.
-
- Phil Norman, mailing from Exeter University.
- email: forrey@eh.org forrey@odie.barnet.ac.uk
- URL: http://newton.ex.ac.uk/general/ug/norman
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