From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263571AbTJWMoE (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:44:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263572AbTJWMoE (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:44:04 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]:53149 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263571AbTJWMoB (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:44:01 -0400 From: Fedor Karpelevitch To: "Toshio Spoor" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Compaq Evo N1020v lockups. Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:24:27 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310221624.28221.fedor@karpelevitch.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Toshio Spoor wrote: > Hi, > > Here is a (very vague) bug report: (sorry for that) > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > Compaq Evo N1020v lockups. (notebook) > > [2.] Full description of the problem/report: > > Since 2.4.23-pre3 I experience lockups the same goes for (estimate) > 2.6.0-test3 => (Looks some code has merged in test3 too from > 2.4.23-pre3). Unfortunately I can't pin point the problem because > this lame Compaq laptop doesn't have a serial port. For now I am > using 2.4.22 that kernel seems stable. Also I have tried to disable > ACPI that didn't work either. So I suspect the cause of the problem > is somewhere in the changes of 2.4.23-pre3. (By the way, it still > crashes with higher pre versions e.g. pre7) > This looks like network lockup many (including me) were experiencing. Apparently problem is with (or around) 8139cp driver. The solution which worked for me and others was to stop using 8139cp module and use 8139too instead. See if it works for you. Fedor.