From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Frank de Lange <frank@unternet.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:21:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A5CE07D.BD36D71C@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010110223015.B18085@unternet.org>
Frank de Lange wrote:
>
> Hi'all,
>
> Ever since I put two ethernet-cards (cheap Winbond W89C940 based PCI NE2K
> clones) in my BP-6 system, I've been experiencing intermittent network hangs.
>
Which driver do you use? The driver in 2.4.0 contains several bugfixes.
If that driver still hangs then I'll double check the documentation.
> A
> hang manifests itself as a total failure to communicate through either network
> card, and can only be solved by rebooting. Removing and reloading the modules
> does not fix the problem, only a reboot works.
>
That's different from my problems:
unload+reload always fixed my problems with the unpatch winbond-840
driver.
> which should work, they are
> NON-busmastering cards after all...),
third line in w840_probe1():
pci_set_master().
And the documentation begins with
W89C840F
PCI Bus Master Fast Ethernet LAN Controller.
--
Manfred
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-10 21:30 QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related? Frank de Lange
2001-01-10 22:21 ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2001-01-10 22:29 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-10 22:40 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 11:48 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-11 15:22 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 16:55 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 19:18 ` Frank de Lange
[not found] ` <3A5E0849.EB428D70@mandrakesoft.com>
2001-01-12 0:28 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 11:40 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-12 15:06 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 15:36 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 19:38 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 19:49 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 21:09 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 21:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-01-11 21:53 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 14:35 ` David Woodhouse
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-12 16:53 Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 17:02 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-12 17:16 Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 17:33 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 17:51 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 18:25 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:04 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 19:07 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:21 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:33 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 19:52 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-12 20:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-14 0:13 ` Roeland Th. Jansen
2001-01-14 0:23 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 20:05 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 21:21 ` Frank de Lange
[not found] <20010112165104.A22465@unternet.org>
2001-01-16 19:23 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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