Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | | Subject | Re: Net routing hosed on 2.1.120? | | Date | 9 Sep 1998 20:54:55 GMT |
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In article <Pine.OSF.4.02A.9809091023240.3989-100000@zaphod.csci.unt.edu>, Steve Tate <srt@silo.csci.unt.edu> wrote: >Now unfortunately, I'm back at square one with the original problem I >was having that made me want to upgrade to 120 in the first place! > >I can reliably make the kernel crash on both 117 and the modified 120. >It seems to be some interference with networking because my program >will cause both of these to crash when run over a network connection, >but the machine seems totally stable if networking is turned off and I >run the program from the console.
I'd ask you if possible to try out a intel EEpro100 based network card, or perhaps one of the tulip-based ones. The 3com drivers apparently have problems, and I'd like to know if the machine is stable with a driver that I know to be stable (the eepro100 in particular I have personally used a lot on SMP enviroments, and the tulip-based ones enough to make me feel comfortable with them).
However, once you have gotten a stable setup and thus made sure that the only difference really is the network card, I'd still ask you to continue to test out the broken card for a while. I'd like to know why the driver appears broken in SMP environments. The kernel has a README about trying to decipher any oopses you get..
Linus
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