Re: [Linux-ia64] Recommended compiler for compiling kernels test10 and upper?

Jim Wilson
2000-11-13T23:14:54Z

>Actually, it does boot, but the Ethernet card reports that the
>receiver overflows, and I end up not connected to the net.

If you are seeing:
"eth0: card reports no RX buffers."
"eth0: card reports no resources."
then the same problem has been observed on ia32 machines, and is believed to be
a bug in the eepro100 driver.

Just do something like
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 up
and it will go away. If it doesn't go away, repeat until it does.
Alternatively, you can go into /etc/rc.d/init.d and do
./network stop
./network start

I don't know anything about kernel workarounds for the problem. A kernel
person would have to comment on that. If there is a kernel problem, then
that might explain why this ethernet problem shows up more frequently on
some kernel versions than others.

Jim