Hi, The 2.4 series kernels were known to cause kernel panics and oopes. 2.4.16 has solved this and the current version 2.4.17 has even more fixes to the driver to make it more stable. My guess is that the default 7.2 kernel has the original 8139too bug. Upgrade to 2.4.17 and see how you go. I am personally using the 2.4.16 kernel using the RTL-8139 chipset with no problems. My original 7.1 install kernel was causing all sorts of problems.
Thanks and Merry Christmas from Melbourne, Mathew McKernan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lennert Buytenhek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bart De Schuymer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Bridge List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 8:49 PM Subject: Re: [Bridge] Promiscuous Soup > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 05:48:49PM +0100, Bart De Schuymer wrote: > > > I've been having kernel panics with my rtl8139 cards (or so I assume). My > > machine has 3 realtec cards. I could systematically crash it by downloading > > the redhat 7.2 from a mirrorsite (tried enough kernel versions). > > After recompiling the kernel with enabling PIO (instead of MMIO) for the > > RTL-8193 it doesn't panic anymore. > > Could be pure luck ofcourse... > > What panic message do you get and where is it triggered? > > > cheers, > Lennert > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
