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

["Robbert Kouprie" <robbert@jvb.tudelft.nl>]

I experienced the 10 Mbit half duplex problems too with this card, but
they seemed to have gone away after a bugfix from Alan Cox somewhere in
2.4. Somewhere later I upgraded to 100 Mbit full duplex and never
experienced problems again until 2.4.17.

I think im gonna try some older kernels and look through diffs if I have
time.

- Robbert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Greear [mailto:greearb@candelatech.com] 
> Sent: donderdag 31 januari 2002 18:54
> To: Robbert Kouprie
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: NIC lockup in 2.4.17 (SMP/APIC/Intel 82557)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Robbert Kouprie wrote:
> 
> > The box is an Abit BP6 with Dual Celerons 433 and 192 Mb RAM. No
> > PCI-Riser cards. It is connected at 100 Mbit full duplex to a 100
> > Mbit switch. APIC is enabled. No kind of power management 
> is enabled.
> 
> 
> The only lockup problems I have run into are connecting some 
> eepro nics to
> a 10bt hub, and using (cheap arsed, it appears) PCI riser 
> cards.  I have
> heard of some SMP related issues, but nothing concrete, and I don't
> have any SMP systems personally.  You could try the e100, but I have
> no idea if it will be better or worse for your particular problem.
> 
> 
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