hello,

i am using cheap NIC Planet ENW-3504-FC(8139too module) on an old laptop acer tm 210tev. the issue i am having is that i am experiencing network disconnections in random intervals. sometimes they are connected w/ a system lock-up. once the card is ejected, the system is up again. in other cases the link/act diod just dies and i get "card ejected from slot 0" message in dmesg. in windows 98 everything works fine.

i'd appreciate an advice on this.

-- joe running the following:

slackware -current, 2.6.16.9 stock, cs-pcmcia, hotplug. lsmod:

Module Size Used by
ipv6 229376 10
snd_seq_dummy 2820 0
snd_seq_oss 30080 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5888 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 44368 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 6540 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 38304 0
snd_mixer_oss 15744 2 snd_pcm_oss
uhci_hcd 28688 0
ehci_hcd 29064 0
ali_agp 5376 1
shpchp 39616 0
snd_ali5451 19596 1
snd_ac97_codec 86560 1 snd_ali5451
snd_ac97_bus 1920 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 73864 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 19332 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 44132 10 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss ,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 7136 2 snd
snd_page_alloc 7688 1 snd_pcm
i2c_ali15x3 6660 0
i2c_ali1535 6276 0
i2c_core 16784 2 i2c_ali15x3,i2c_ali1535
ohci_hcd 18436 0
pcmcia 30500 2
firmware_class 7552 1 pcmcia
i82092 9396 0
nls_iso8859_2 4480 1
nls_cp437 5632 1
vfat 10368 1
fat 45980 1 vfat
yenta_socket 23436 2
rsrc_nonstatic 11008 2 i82092,yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 34576 4 pcmcia,i82092,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
8139too 21760 0
mii 4864 1 8139too
usb_storage 78400 0
agpgart 28080 1 ali_agp
psmouse 34952 0
ext3 118024 1
jbd 46484 1 ext3