Sundance DLink DFE 850-TX problem

[Herbert Meier <hmeier@devel.brg19.at>]

Dear Debian Kernel Team!

I am using a DLink DFE 850-TX (quad port) NIC. There is
a problem with the kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686 packages.
The sundance driver coming with these images seems
to work, but after copying about 1 GB of data the
NIC behaves dead. This is reproducable.

When I download the sundance driver from Donald Beckers
homepage and compile it with the appropiate kernel headers
everything works fine. I can copy thousands of megabytes
without getting the NIC stuck.

For the sundance driver I use I needed to download the
following files from Donald Becker's homepage:

ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/kern_compat.h
ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/pci-scan.c
ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/pci-scan.h
ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/sundance.c

kern_compat.h   10624 Byte
pci-scan.c      20199 Byte
pci-scan.h       2990 Byte
sundance.c      51065 Byte

naming the versions:

kern_compat.h:	$Revision: 1.18 $ $Date: 2003/07/22 17:40:21 $
"pci-scan.c:v1.12 7/30/2003  Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>"
pci-scan.h:	version 1.02 $Version:$ $Date: 2001/03/18 21:35:59 $
"sundance.c:v1.11 2/4/2003  Written by Donald Becker 
<becker@scyld.com>\n";

After compiling and installing those drivers everything
worked fine.

Thanks for your work!
Sincerely,
Hebert Meier.