From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 7 May 2002 11:26:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 7 May 2002 11:26:48 -0400 Received: from firewall.esrf.fr ([193.49.43.1]:27065 "HELO out.esrf.fr") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 7 May 2002 11:26:46 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 17:26:32 +0200 From: Samuel Maftoul To: Mickael Bailly Cc: lkml Subject: Re: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout (2.4.19-pre2/8) Message-ID: <20020507172632.F3155@pcmaftoul.esrf.fr> In-Reply-To: <200205071712.21699.mickael.bailly@trader.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:12:21PM +0200, Mickael Bailly wrote: > Hi, > > We got the same problem with PCI eepro NICs (not onboard) on Dell Poweredge. I'm on dell's also but not only poweredge > We got the same error messages > We tried the alternative 'e100' driver, but without success. We also did but we get approximatively with the same message ( no really the same, but one talking about timeouts) > We tried on 2.2 kernels (RedHat 6.2), then on 2.4 (RedHat 7.1/7.2): problem > still exist. I didn't tried 2.2 > > At last we disabled APIC ( configuration line 'append=noapic' in your > lilo.conf configuration file ) I did also but my problem with firewire still exists That's the first thing I did, disableapic and noapic ( it's an smp system so I have no idea what the consequences of this are ) > > Now it's working fine since 2 days... need a little more time to validate the > change... > > See you > Mickael > Thanks for the tip. Sam