From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261170AbVAAUTs (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jan 2005 15:19:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261171AbVAAUTs (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jan 2005 15:19:48 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:39880 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261170AbVAAUTm (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jan 2005 15:19:42 -0500 Message-ID: <41D70885.3080208@tmr.com> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:31:01 -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 Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel To: Terry Hardie CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Asus P4C800-E Deluxe and Intel Pro/1000 References: <41D5C459.8050601@tmr.com><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: > 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... -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979