In message <20021002215239.F569@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>, David Laight writes:
>On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:24:13PM -0700, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
>> Perhaps it is the switch. It's plugged into a Netgear FS508, and if it's
>> like every other piece of Netgear crap I own, it's probably half-dead.
>
>The switch shouldn't be able to break the driver, even if it is
>a cheap nasty switch.

Right.
>
>OTOH most drivers only see 'normal' events....
>
Which is why debugging them in the face of garbage is such a 
challenge...

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