[Prism54-users] System crash after firmware upload

[prism54 at ehlers.info]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 steve at nexusuk.org wrote:

> I had exactly the same problem and discovered it was the ne2k_pci driver 
> causing the machine to freeze.  I replaced my ne2k (wired) network card 
> with an rtl8139 and everything works.

mhh. I don't have any ne2k Devices:

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 05)
00:0e.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor: Unknown device 3890 (rev 01)
00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30)
00:14.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:14.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:14.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c)

This is the card:

lspci -nvvv | grep -A 9 "1260:3890"
00:0e.0 Class 0280: 1260:3890 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: 16a5:1605
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), cache line size 08
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
        Region 0: Memory at 42300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-


But I could try temporary removing the 3Com and e100 Card (or driver).

But could this be the problem? What is done, when uploading the firm? 
Could it write in stuctures of other devices?

thanks

Tim
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