From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: silverbanana@gmx.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: usage of RealTek 8169 crashes my Linux system
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 15:37:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4067378B.7070102@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40673495.3050500@gmx.de>
Bernd Fuhrmann wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm using a RealTek 8169 1000MBit NIC. However, whenever larger amounts
> of data are being transfered (copying files through smb for instance)
> Linux crashes. It happens after 10MB-100MB transferred data so it's
> never as stable as it should be. The whole System runs fine as long as
> that Realtek 8169 NIC is not used (by transferring data through it).
> When it crashes there is no entry for that event in kern.log and the
> system just hangs.
>
> I'm using:
> Linux 2.6.4
> gcc 3.3.3
> 2X Athlon MP 2600 Mhz
> Tyan Tiger S2466N-4M Dual / AMD760MPX
> 2x 512MB ECC/REG Infineon DDR PC266 RAM
> Debian (unstable)
>
> Any idea how to fix it? Is that driver getting stable in the next months
> or are there obstacles that should make me buy a different NIC (like
> missing docs for that chipset and stuff like that)?
Does Andrew Morton's -mm patches fix it for you?
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-28 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-28 20:24 usage of RealTek 8169 crashes my Linux system Bernd Fuhrmann
2004-03-28 20:37 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-03-28 21:50 ` Bernd Fuhrmann
2004-03-28 22:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 22:36 ` Francois Romieu
2004-03-29 19:39 ` Bernd Fuhrmann
2004-03-29 19:56 ` Francois Romieu
2004-03-30 9:08 ` Bernd Fuhrmann
2004-03-29 8:41 ` Claudio Martins
2004-03-29 16:18 ` Francois Romieu
2004-03-29 9:24 ` Daniel Egger
2004-03-29 16:13 ` Francois Romieu
2004-03-29 16:20 ` Francois Romieu
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