Re: 2.4.16 freezed up with eepro100 module

[J Sloan <jjs@pobox.com>]

Nathan Poznick wrote:

> Thus spake Sven Heinicke:
> >
> > The 2.4.16 kernel finally makes my clients happy with memory
> > management.  The systems that froz up is a Dell of some sort or other
> > with two 1Ghz Pentium IIIs and 4G of memory.  But, now I seems to be
> > having ethernet problems.  With and eepro100 card:
>
> I've encountered the same problem, with the same hardware setup (I
> believe it's a Dell 2400, or something like that), on 2.4.14+xfs.  For
> me it didn't lock up the entire machine however, it only seemed to
> kill the network - I was able to reboot the machine cleanly once I got
> to the console. (message from yesterday with the subject 'failed
> assertion in tcp.c')  I too, am open to suggestions :-)

Similar experience here - the network connectivity
would go away, but the machine was still alive.

Using the e100 driver instead seemed to solve the
problem on the dell servers here.

But I didn't have to reboot - just stopped networking,
unloaded the eepro100 drivers, loaded the e100
drivers and started networking.

cu

jjs