A long time ago (2.2.13 or so), I could not use another card on the
6500 for very long with the de4x5 driver as well. At that time, Paul
provided a patch for the de4x5 driver which fixed the problem. He
also described the issue as a cache coherency problem.

Yes, paul's patch is what I'm talking about.

Well, I wonder if that was the fix that Paul put in. Some time ago
(early 2.4) I tried the de4x5 driver with this Farallon 10/100 card
but it worked even more poorly than the tulip driver of that time did.

Yup.

quoted

Try defining CACHE_ALIGN to CAL_32LONG, and DESC_ALIGN to u32 dummy[4]
(as in the commented out example).

I will look at the de4x5 code again and try this. It's all vaguely
familiar to me... Thanks much!

That should be the same patch paul did.

Ben.


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