Andrew Morton wrote: >> which causes the connections on the named device to time out. eth0 >> is an 3com 3c509 NIC. > 3c509 doesn't really have a maintainer. Could you please grab the > latest driver from http://www.scyld.com, test that and let me know > if it fixes the problem? No, I can't. :/ This driver isn't usable in a 2.4.x kernel and I'm not (easily) able to downgrade to 2.2.x. (FYI the "problem" is ReiserFS) -=( CU Andre )=- E-Mail: andre@grueneberg.de ... Love is like war: easy to begin, but very hard to stop. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu