Re: NIC lockup in 2.4.17 (SMP/APIC/Intel 82557)

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

What does the rest of the hardware-config look like?  Is
the NIC attached to a 10bt hub?  Are you using PCI-Riser
cards?

Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 01:27:47 +0100
> "Robbert Kouprie" <robbert@jvb.tudelft.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Thanks for your reaction Stephan, but I seriously doubt the change below
>>would fix the problem... Also, as the problem appears randomly, and
>>usually after some uptime, I obviously can not know about it being fixed
>>if I constantly upgrade the kernel. I'd rather wait and see if it
>>appears again in time after I did a kernel upgrade, and not trying every
>>-pre while there's no mention on the mailing list of such bug being
>>fixed.
>>
>>Anyway, I just rebooted with 2.4.18-pre7-ac1, we'll see if it helps.
>>
> 
> Hello Robert,
> 
> Well, I know the changes to the driver are rather ... small :-)
> But on the other hand, I would not be all that sure that the bug is a
> hundred percent related to the driver itself.
> I run a working config with eepro100-driver, btw.
> 
> Regards,
> Stephan
> 
> 
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