Problem with RTL8139 on Geode with CE.NET 5.0

Hi,

I've a very freaky problem with the RTL8139 driver on Geode:

I connect my RTL8139 over cross cable to an XP machine. On XP, the network
adapter has 2 IP Address in different networks.

I start a flood ping from XP to the RTL8139 (5000 bytes), the RTL8139 is
responding well! During the flood ping, I make a small ping from the second
IP address (RTL8139 doesn't know the network ID). After the small ping (not
answered) and ~12 fping (answered!) the RTL8139 is dead! A thread with prio
~115 doen't give any CPU time anymore! (should be the ISR in NDIS...). The
CheckForHang function is still running, but doesn't care about the hanging
state of the network....

I can reproduce this problem with a RTL8139 PCI Card on the Geode to! I can
not reproduce it on the CEPC with the same PCI card...

It seems like it's a synchronization problem in the RTL8139 driver, which
appear on the Geode platform...

Does anybody have a similar problem with the RTL8139 driver? Any workaround?
I'm looking for the source code of the driver...

Thank you for reply!!


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