From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261163AbULaVQm (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:16:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262155AbULaVQm (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:16:42 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:64455 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261163AbULaVQj (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:16:39 -0500 Message-ID: <41D5C459.8050601@tmr.com> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:27:53 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Hardie CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Asus P4C800-E Deluxe and Intel Pro/1000 References: <200411112003.43598.Gregor.Jasny@epost.de><6.1.1.1.0.20041108074026.01dead50@ptg1.spd.analog.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Terry Hardie wrote: > Well, this has been plauging me for months, and finally figured it out. > > Any 2.6 kernel on my board, would boot, then give errors (paraphrased, > sorry) when I tried to bring up the ethernet: > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > IRQ #18: Nobody cared! > > And no ethernet conectivity. > > The Fix: Update bios from asus' website. I guess their ACPI was screwed > up. This is the second time I've had to update this MB to fix > incompatibilities with Linux. So, watch out with Asus boards on Linux. > > BTW - Linux 2.4's driver worked fine with the old bios. Only 2.6 didn't > work. Some additional info, I've been investigating this for a few hours, and it appears that (a) IRQ 18 on my system is shared by ide0 and ide1, and that the IRQ storm seems to start the first time I use ide1 (DVD only). I will be posting a bunch of dmesg results when/if the system reboots, but acpi={off,ht} doesn't help, pollirq doesn't help, and system shutdown leaves the system unbootable without a full (pull the power cord) hardware power cycle. Questions: 1 - do you have trouble rebooting after a failure? 2 - do you see the IRQ 18 storm start just after the first use of ide1? 3 - and of course if you can get up in console mode, are ide0 and ide1 shared? I may rebuild the kernel with IRQ share off just to see if that helps. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979