Re: Still having problems with eepro100

Mike Fedyk
2001-12-01T00:37:49Z

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 ;)