No reason to upgrade the *kernel* 

Forum: 3Com PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter Issues
Re: 3CCFE575BT: eth0: transmit timed out (Matthew Hebert)
Date: 2000, Apr 20
From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

However, a PCMCIA driver upgrade might be useful. Since this is not the newest version of Mandrake, presumably you're running an older version of the PCMCIA drivers. What do you mean when you say the ethernet device "crashes"? You can upgrade your PCMCIA drivers (including the 3c575_cb driver) without touching your kernel or even rebooting. -- Dave

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meaning of 'crashes' Re: No reason to upgrade the *kernel* (David Hinds) Date: 2000, Apr 20 From: Matthew Hebert mlhebert

What I meant by 'crashes' is that my only recourse seems to be a reboot to get the ethernet device working again. After this message is displaye once, I can't get any connectivity (can't ping my own IP). Even if I log in as root and do a '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart', when eth0 comes back up, the same error message 'eth0: transmit timed out' continues to be displayed (every 2-3 seconds, until I reboot).

1. Re: More: meaning of 'crashes' by David Hinds, 2000, Apr 20 (_ Re: More: meaning of 'crashes' by Gregory Ade, 2000, Apr 21

to: "No reason to upgrade the *kernel*"