From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
To: Frank de Lange <frank@unternet.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:48:23 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A5D9D87.8A868F6A@uow.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010110223015.B18085@unternet.org>
Frank de Lange wrote:
>
> Hi'all,
>
> Ever since I put two ethernet-cards (cheap Winbond W89C940 based PCI NE2K
> clones) in my BP-6 system, I've been experiencing intermittent network hangs. A
> hang manifests itself as a total failure to communicate through either network
> card, and can only be solved by rebooting. Removing and reloading the modules
> does not fix the problem, only a reboot works.
>
Losing both NICs at the same time could be the elusive "APIC
stops generating interrupts" problem.
Do you get any transmit timeout messages in the logs? If
so, send them.
Does it happen with a uniprocessor build?
Are you able to boot with the `noapic' LILO option?
If so, does that make it stop?
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-10 21:30 Frank de Lange
2001-01-10 22:21 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-10 22:29 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-10 22:40 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 11:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-01-11 15:22 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 16:55 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 19:18 ` Frank de Lange
[not found] ` <3A5E0849.EB428D70@mandrakesoft.com>
2001-01-12 0:28 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 11:40 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-12 15:06 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 15:36 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 19:38 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 19:49 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 21:09 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 21:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-01-11 21:53 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 14:35 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-12 16:53 Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 17:02 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-12 17:16 Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 17:33 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 17:51 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 18:25 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:04 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 19:07 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:21 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:33 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 19:52 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-12 20:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-14 0:13 ` Roeland Th. Jansen
2001-01-14 0:23 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 20:05 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 21:21 ` Frank de Lange
[not found] <20010112165104.A22465@unternet.org>
2001-01-16 19:23 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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