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

Stephan von Krawczynski (skraw@ithnet.com)
Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:35:16 +0100


On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 01:27:47 +0100
"Robbert Kouprie" <robbert@jvb.tudelft.nl> wrote:

> Thanks for your reaction Stephan, but I seriously doubt the change below
> would fix the problem... Also, as the problem appears randomly, and
> usually after some uptime, I obviously can not know about it being fixed
> if I constantly upgrade the kernel. I'd rather wait and see if it
> appears again in time after I did a kernel upgrade, and not trying every
> -pre while there's no mention on the mailing list of such bug being
> fixed.
>
> Anyway, I just rebooted with 2.4.18-pre7-ac1, we'll see if it helps.

Hello Robert,

Well, I know the changes to the driver are rather ... small :-)
But on the other hand, I would not be all that sure that the bug is a
hundred percent related to the driver itself.
I run a working config with eepro100-driver, btw.

Regards,
Stephan

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