Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, har

Roeland Th. Jansen (roel@grobbebol.xs4all.nl)
Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:42:33 +0000

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 06:45:06PM +0000, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> I think that on BP6 hardware there is no way around except using 'noapic',
> or passing board through Abit replacement program. There is only two bit
> checksum which guards 8 or 22 data bits. I have no idea how frequent two
> bits errors are, but, as your example shows, they definitely happen on
> your hardware.

thanks for the explanation. I run noapic right now and didn't die yet. I
looked at the irq stuff and decided that I probably don't need it
anyways.

are there new(er) boards known that do not have this problem ?
(pls reply to bengel@grobbebol.xs4all.nl)

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