On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 09:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After a couple of months of wrestling with my computer and all it's > stability issues it's been suffering lately I finaly have most of them > ironed out. One of the few remaining ones is stability problems with > CDCEther and my Motorola SB4100 Cable modem. Just remember, the code is <CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL> :-)
> From what I can tell, every now and then eth1 (the modem) will disapear > from ifconfig and when I do a route it hangs (presumably because it seems > to think that eth1 is still there somewhere but cannot find it). This > happens about once every 4 days. The simple fix is running ifdown eth1 > (just to clear out any remaining settings that are hung), remove the > module, reinsert CDCEther then ifup eth1. OK, could be a race. Do you have SMP? Or kernel pre-emption? Does it still happen if you compile uP only? Could also be a power problem. Are you powering it from a reliable source? Is the modem power plug solid? > I have also noticed that on at least once, data sent to the modem from > upstream (presumably some kind of error sent by Comcast) it has kernel > panic'd. I have only noticed this on one occasion, however it is possible > that it has happened some other times that I have not noticed. This seems unlikely, unless we are corrupting the skb's. You need to capture it somehow to allow analysis. > now I know the usual question, I currently have 2.4.17, and if I am not > mistaken I did not see any CDCEther updates in 2.4.18. Nah, me either :) Maybe soon, but nothing that will definately address these problems without more info. Brad _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
