* Re: status of via velocity in 2.6.9
[not found] ` <20041207082106.GA24306@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
@ 2004-12-07 8:44 ` Lenar Lõhmus
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From: Lenar Lõhmus @ 2004-12-07 8:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Francois Romieu, netdev
Hi,
Francois Romieu wrote:
>Lenar Lõhmus <lenar@vision.ee> :
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>>the machine just locked up after ifconfig up. With 2.6.9, it doesn't
>>lock up, but it doesn't work either (data seems to go to black hole
>>or sth). But there seem to be some success reports too with this kernel.
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>Can you check if the computer hosts the latest bios from its vendor and
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At the time 2.6.9 was released it had latest bios.
>if booting with "acpi=off" makes a difference ?
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If I remember correctly - i tried, but no difference.
>The content of /proc/interrupts after a known number of TX packets could
>give some hint (use ping or such and correlate ifconfig output with
>/proc/interrupts).
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With that I can't help, although the machine is accessible to me, it is
now 'in production' with 3Com NIC and so I
can't test and play with it anymore. When I get my hands on another
similar box and it still exhibits
same problems, I'll be back reporting it, and hopefully I have time to
test suggested things.
Lenar
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