Re: APM disable broken (was -> Re: 8139too on ABIT BP6 causes "eth0: transmit timed out" )

[Oden Eriksson <oden.eriksson@kvikkjokk.net>]

On Mondayen den 29 October 2001 00.11, erich@uruk.org wrote:
> Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> ...[recent 2.4-based kernel]...
>
> > but this problem is not specific to that kernel.  I've been having
> > it for a looong time.
> >
> > Specifically, I get:
> >
> >  NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
>
> ...
>
> > and then the machine is dead, network-wise.  I have to reboot (reset).
> >
> > Note that I am on an ABIT BP6 board, and I do get a lot of APIC errors
> > under heavy network traffic, which is what raises the above.
> > By heavy network traffic, I mean a 7 Mb/s full duplex (it's a 100 Mb/s
> > LAN).
>
> I had what looks like exactly this problem with my ABIT BP6 -based machine
> running RH 7.1, and the problem turned out to be the interaction between
> SMP and the APM BIOS, when APM is turned on.  A different network card,
> but the same symptom.  Another symptom I would occasionally see was a
> certain kind of hard-disk hang, but only on the integrated HPT366
> controller.

You might want to try the latest Abit BP6 "RU" bios with HPT366 bios v1.28, 
get it at:

ftp://ftp.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/pub/mirror/abit/beta/bp6/bios/128/bp6ru128.zip

Chears.

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