From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20010818012810.26415.qmail@kunk.jriver.com> Subject: Re: Occasional crash reports To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 20:28:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert E Brose II MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: -- forwarded message -- From: mfedyk@matchmail.com (Mike Fedyk) Subject: Re: Occasional crash reports On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:59:05PM -0500, Takashi Oe wrote: > > I don't really know, but I can confirm that both 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels > are unstable on a beige g3 and a bmac equipped b/w g3. I can crash them > rather easily with regular programs, given a day or two. I have not seen > similar instability on other machines (dual g4, 7600, all nubus). > Unfortunately, I don't have any time to track it down right now :( I've been able to trace that to the mace and bmac ethernet drivers, which are *very* unreliable in 2.2. Get the latest drivers from Donald Becker for tulip, rtl8139, eepro100, etc. and you're set. I haven't tried 2.4 yet. Mike -- end of forwarded message -- Mace is still unreliable in 2.4. It's always been just plain unreliable for me on 7200, 7500 and 7600's. It's a bummer because it sure would be nice to have another PCI slot free. Tulip works well as does ne2k-pci. Bmac has given me problems on a rev C imac. I've almost given up on the iMac because yaboot seems unable to handle booting partition 13 which is about 30 gigs up into a 45 gig drive. I can only get at it by using bootx on a 8.6 CD (the iMac os is 9.1). Bob -- Robert E. Brose II N0QBJ http://www.jriver.com/~bob/ bob@kunk.jriver.com ----- End of forwarded message from Robert E Brose II ----- -- Robert E. Brose II N0QBJ http://www.jriver.com/~bob/ bob@kunk.jriver.com ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/