Hi people...

I have kernel 2.6.18.1 running very stably - it runs for weeks without
problem. I wanted to upgrade to 2.6.19 or .20, and have similar
problems with both. After a few hours of work, eth1 stops working,
and no amount of rmmod or ifconfig can restart it. Until now,
the only way I found, was to reboot.

Net card is a Winbond W89C940, works perfectly under 2.6.18.1.
Driver is ne2k-pci/8390.
The messages I found in dmesg are:

NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
eth1: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x3, t=282.
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
eth1: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x2, t=235.

As I mentioned above, everything works perfectly under 2.6.18.1
for weeks even. With bot 2.6.19.2 and 2.6.20.1, after a few hours
eth1 quietly freezes, all the rest continues to work ok.
Strangely enough I found several references to this problem
with older kernels (2.2 and 2.4), none for 2.6.

I'd very much appreciate suggestions!
John