I had my emptool freeze (actually, it seems is was empeg side that was freezing) intermintently over Ether, after half a CD worth of music or so, with 1.01B2 (I was trying to fix a DHCP problem with it). With 1.0 syncs are OK (but I usually transfer CD by CD). Syncs over serial don't work at all (but terminal does, so, with working Ether I don't care). I am using an ancient IBM ThinkPad 380ED with RH5.2 and Xircom PCMCIA 10Base-T adapter. (On WinNT both serial and Ether work.)
Have you tried to downgrade to 1.0?
Good luck!
Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green
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Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Q#5196
MkII #080000376, 18GB green
MkIIa #040103247, 60GB blue