Re: Re: random crashes with SMP system

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:13:29PM +0200, baldyeti wrote:
> Hello, I am posting to the list the solution I finally found
> to a long-standing problem which seems to affect linux on
> (some) Compaq EVO workstations (see below). These machines come
> with an intel pro 100/vm ethernet adapter. Knoppix (and
> various other distro's I've tried on the same HW) chooses
> the eepro driver in this case, which in my case was causing
> instability and system crashes. There is an intel-provided
> OSS driver called e100, which works better at least in my
> particular case. Since I've edited /etc/modules on my HD
> installation and have replaced the eepro100 line with a
> e100 one, I am happy to report that the system is behaving
> fine. All is well that ends well!
> 
> I hope this can benefit other users,
> 
> --bald.

Could you reveal the PCI numbers of that specific network adapter?
(lspci ; lspci -n)

-Klaus