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Subject: Re: More kernel problems with Gateway 486/dx-2
Date: 23 Dec 1992 09:34:10 -0600
Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX
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In article <9212230316.AA10573@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> DS1437@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu writes:
:    Since the system hangs now when you try a network access on the Gateway
:I went back and booted from the fixit disk and mounted the hard drive. and
:then ran the ifconfig program by hand. The network then worked fine!!
:Except with a Startartartart between every character that I typed.
:Maybe this is related to the new patch for NE-2000 cards since the new
:kernel that I am running has that installed, and the old kernel doesn't
:
:

  Didn't I see something last week (or the week before) about a problem with
trying to access the ne-2000 with trailers enabled that had a similar
symptom?  Something about addressing beyond the end of the ring buffer??  
Maybe?  I don't have an NE-2000, so I didn't pay real close attention.

TSgt Dave Burgess