Re: 3C905b partial lockup in 2.4.5-pre5 and up to 2.4.6-pre1

["Glenn C. Hofmann" <ghofmann@pair.com>]

Andrew, 
Although I don't run  
Redhat, your response  
tells me that, even though I 
 was feeling that it was a  
kernel problem, it could be  
a userspace issue, which I  
also suspected.  Debian  
updated their nettools  
today, so I will see if that  
helps in any way.  Thanks  
for your help.  If you think 
of anything else that might 
be an issue, please let me 
know.  

Glenn C. Hofmann 

Andrew wrote:

Date sent:      	Sun, 10 Jun 2001 11:35:53 +1000
From:           	Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
Subject:        	Re: 3C905b partial  lockup in 2.4.5-pre5 and up to 2.4.6-pre1
To:             	hofmang@ibm.net
Copies to:      	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

> "Glenn C. Hofmann" wrote:
> > 
> > I have tried 2.4.5-pre2 up to 2.4.6-pre1 with the same results. 
> > Everything boots great and I can login fine.  When I try to assign
> > an IP via DHCP or ifconfig, the system sits and stares at me
> > indefinitely.  2.4.5-pre4 didn't compile for me, but pre3 works fine
> > and pre5 locks.  There is keyboard response, and Alt-SysRq will tell
> > me that it knows I want it to sync the disks, but won't actually do
> > it.  It will reboot, though.  I can switch between terminals, but
> > cannot type anything at the login prompt.
> > 
> > The board is a Abit KT7-RAID.  I have waited to see if this issue
> > has been resolved and will recompile the newer kernels (AC and Linus
> > flavours) to see if it has cleared up, but wanted to see if maybe
> > there is something else I should look at.  I can provide any more
> > information that might help, so please let me know.  Thanks in
> > advance.
> 
> There's a problem in some versions of `pump' where it gets
> confused and ends up spinning indefinitely.  If you're using
> pump could you please try the latest RPM?
> 
> If that doesn't help, and if you're unable to kill pump
> with ^C, and if other virtual consoles are not responding then
> it could be a kernel problem - try hitting sysrq-T and feeding
> the resulting logs through `ksymoops -m System.map'
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