> | - experimental fix for NForce2 motherboards & ACPI (thanks to Andy | > Grover to explain me ACPI).
I've yet to try. I installed my asus a7n8x deluxe board on tuesday. The onboard 3Com network card works properly on mine. But any PCI network card (I've tried 2, from different brands) I use ends up using IRQ 16. I then disabled APIC mode in the BIOS, which would let me use the PCI cards properly, but now only 900 or so Mb of the 1.5Gb RAM is seen by Linux (there is a warning about this in dmesg). Also, my usb mouse is not seen. I've also tried to compile the nvnet module, but it fails. The license is probably incompatible for mdk to add it to their kernels... Oh yeah, this was all based on the 2.4.21.0.pre4.5mdk kernel. Do you think that I can enable the APIC mode with 2.4.21.0.pre4.6mdk? Stefan > This does not work, atleast not for the 3Com network, > and as Quel Qun also stated in message: p46 kernel & nforce2 acpi > > > I'm also able to reproduce the 3C920 bug [1546] filed earlier, > about 3Com nic hangs when transferred large amount of data... > you can get it back in work with 'sevice network restart', but... > > And it does not seem to be any specific amount of data, once I > transferred 180MB before the hang, other times it hangs after > 14MB of data... > > I'll try to track it down after I have finished up some translations... > > And the GRSEC "patch" included in pre4.3mdk, that got lost > in pre4.4mdk and pre4.5mdk is not included in this either... > > So here is the diffs that need to be applied, so that they hopefully > will "survive" the next build... > > Thomas