Re: Still having problems with eepro100

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 06:08:27PM -0600, Joe Rice wrote:
> 
> Hello, 
>   I'm having the same type of problems that was talked
> about in this thread.  I have seen the same error
> on kernels 2.4.7 - 2.4.10, which is:
> 
> eth0: card reports no resources.
> __alloc_pages: 0_order allocation failed (gfp=0x20/0) from c012da00
>
> at which point i see NFS timeouts or the machine hangs
> and requires a cold reboot.
>
> also, I haven't had any luck with the Intel e100 driver.
>

e100 probably doesn't help because that is a VM issue triggered by nfs and
networking.

> 
> I'm now testing on 10 of the nodes the 2.4.16 kernel.  They
> have been under a moderate load and i haven't seen any
> problems yet.  I still plan on doing a large load test
> on this newer kernel.
> 

Let us know if there's any problems.  And if things are better that wouldn't
hurt reporting either ;)