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From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
To: Tim Timmerman <Tim.Timmerman@asml.com>
Cc: kees <kees@schoen.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG with 2.4.5
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:59:53 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B397659.816CF0A3@uow.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106261924220.10865-100000@schoen3.schoen.nl>, <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106261924220.10865-100000@schoen3.schoen.nl> <15161.28095.801407.427346@asml.nl>

Tim Timmerman wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "kees" == kees  <kees@schoen.nl> writes:
> 
> kees> Hi,
> 
> kees> I tried 2.4.5 but after a couple of hours I lost all network
> kees> connectivety.  The log shows:
> <snip>
>         Can I just add a me too here ?
> 
>         System: Abit BP6, Dual Celeron, Ne2k-pci, usb ohci and
>         scanner; 128 Mb Ram, Nvidia TNT2 graphics. Kernel 2.4.5

ne2k and, to a lesser extent, 3c59x do not work correctly on many
x86 SMP machines because of a problem with the APIC interrupt
controller.

Probable fixes include booting with the `noapic' option,
running -ac kernels or applying Maciej's APIC workaround
patch.  There's a copy at http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/apic.txt

  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-27  6:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-26 17:28 NETDEV WATCHDOG with 2.4.5 kees
2001-06-27  5:23 ` Tim Timmerman
2001-06-27  5:59   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-06-27 15:44     ` kees
2001-06-27 15:57       ` Andrew Morton
2001-06-28  5:26       ` Tim Timmerman
2001-06-29  5:29     ` Tim Timmerman
2001-06-28 12:52 ` rc
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-28  4:58 G. Hugh Song

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