Error 3c900 driver in 2.2.19?

Well, it shouldn't hang - it should just fail to do anything for a while and then recover.

You can reserve more memory for the network driver by altering the contents of /proc/sys/vm/freepages. Try doubling everything in there.

Quoted 25 lines · Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk

Hi

I have a 3c900 card in a server, and after upgrading to 2.2.19 it started hanging every now and then, giving me the error message "kernel: eth0:
memory shortage". The card is this (as reported during boot)

3c59x.c:v0.99H 27May00 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0xa800, 00:a0:24:ef:ef:50, IRQ 5
8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, 10baseT interface.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.

Please cc: to me ([email protected]) and Jannik ([email protected]), as we're not on the list.

Best regards

roy

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