Re: Network failures with ACPI enabled (kernel 2.4, 2.6) PROBLEM FOUND!!!!!!

Pavel Machek
2004-01-03T21:06:22Z

Hi!

> > The fact that transmit works and receive fails is a clue.
> > Probably the broadcom uses interrupts for receive, but doesn't
> > use interrupts for transmit. So if it were not getting interrupts,
> > transmit could still send frames.
> >
> > So if you enable the parallel port in ECP mode, broadcom works --
> > but if the port is disabled, or enabled but not in ECP mode, it fails?
>
> Hmm I played around with it some more. If I lower the speed on my
> notebook
> to 10baseT-HD the transfer works at 800KB/s.
> But errors and frames on the device (eth0) are increasing at an alarming
> rate.
> For me it looks like that the problem occurs if the network card gets a
> lot of inbound traffic.

Is not this plain old "ACPI stays to log with interrupts disabled"?
Pavel
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