From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:42:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:42:18 -0500 Received: from isis.its.uow.edu.au ([130.130.68.21]:16311 "EHLO isis.its.uow.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:41:57 -0500 Message-ID: <3A5D9D87.8A868F6A@uow.edu.au> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:48:23 +1100 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.4.0 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank de Lange CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related? In-Reply-To: <20010110223015.B18085@unternet.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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? - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/