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Re: Summary: BIOS flashed etherboot will not start





> > |The unfunny part with this NIC is, the trouble I had with it under Linux.
> > |After a while of heavy traffic it looses the network connection. Tried
> > |with the Becker driver and the driver provided from 3COM :-(
> 
> Could it be an SMP issue?  Or a shared IRQ issue, since PCI will routinely
> share IRQs between cards?  Just a few wild guesses....

Yes with SMP it is more unstable. I did not look much at irq's. The card
was tested with an older gigabyte hx socket 7 board with two intel mmx.
Dec tulip runs with this board without problems.

So long,
	  Dirk

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