From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:19:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:19:09 -0500 Received: from e56090.upc-e.chello.nl ([213.93.56.90]:27652 "EHLO unternet.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:18:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:18:19 +0100 From: Frank de Lange To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related? Message-ID: <20010111201819.B3269@unternet.org> In-Reply-To: <20010110223015.B18085@unternet.org> <3A5D9D87.8A868F6A@uow.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A5D9D87.8A868F6A@uow.edu.au>; from andrewm@uow.edu.au on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:48:23PM +1100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Here's another posting to the list which mentions problems with NE2K and BP6: http://web.gnu.walfield.org/mail-archive/linux-kernel/2000-August/0132.html "...In another machine, a dual celeron abit-bp6, recent 2.3.x kernels seem to dislike my realtek 8029 NIC. (I know, it's garbage plugged in to garbage...) The network card will die randomly, usually when I'm sending large amounts of data. When it dies, there are no kernel messages, and the interrupt count in /proc/interrupts for the card stop changing. Minor (painful) experimentation has shown that if the card is sharing the interrupt with anything else (say, ide2), it takes that with it. This only happens in "newer" kernels, it's fine in 2.2.16, and in some earlier 2.3.x kernels. It goes away if I boot with the noapic=1 kernel parameter, and seems to be replaced with harmless "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7." messages. (I haven't configured any hardware at all to be on IRQ7 - though I'm lead to believe IRQ7 has some sort of special purpose) ..." So I'm not the only one... Cheers//Frank -- WWWWW _______________________ ## o o\ / Frank de Lange \ }# \| / \ ##---# _/ \ #### \ +31-320-252965 / \ frank@unternet.org / ------------------------- [ "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." ] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/