Re: Asus P4C800-E Deluxe and Intel Pro/1000

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Terry Hardie wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
> 
>>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?
> 
> 
> Since I flashed my bios, no more problems, so I've had no more failures

I hesitate to try that, since the web page says you must use "real DOS" 
and gives instructions for creating the FD using that. Since I lack both 
DOS and a floppy, that does present problems...

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   CTO TMR Associates, Inc
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