Re: Network hang with 2.4.1-pre9 and 3c59x

2001-01-24 Thread Andrew Morton
"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > This is due to a lost APIC interrupt acknowledgement. A workaround > > is to boot with the `noapic' LILO option. > > > > This long-standing and very nasty problem was discussed extensively > > a week or two ago. Sus

Re: Network hang with 2.4.1-pre9 and 3c59x

2001-01-24 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: > This is due to a lost APIC interrupt acknowledgement. A workaround > is to boot with the `noapic' LILO option. > > This long-standing and very nasty problem was discussed extensively > a week or two ago. Suspicions were cast at the disable_irq() func

Re: Network hang with 2.4.1-pre9 and 3c59x

2001-01-23 Thread Andrew Morton
John Roll wrote: > > Hi, > > I read about some problems with my ethernet card (3c59x) but it was rumored > that they were fixed in 2.4.1-pre8. I have 6 IDE drives raided together and > was stress testing the disk IO. Suddenly there was no network! > > > ... > Linux image.harvard.edu 2.4.1-pre

Network hang with 2.4.1-pre9 and 3c59x

2001-01-23 Thread John Roll
Hi, I read about some problems with my ethernet card (3c59x) but it was rumored that they were fixed in 2.4.1-pre8. I have 6 IDE drives raided together and was stress testing the disk IO. Suddenly there was no network! [root@image log]# uname -a Linux image.harvard.edu 2.4.1-pre9 #1 SMP Mon J