Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:21:04 -0800 (PST) | From | Terry Hardie <> | Subject | Re: Asus P4C800-E Deluxe and Intel Pro/1000 |
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Terry Hardie wrote: > > Well, this has been plauging me for months, and finally figured it out. > > > > Any 2.6 kernel on my board, would boot, then give errors (paraphrased, > > sorry) when I tried to bring up the ethernet: > > > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > > IRQ #18: Nobody cared! > > > > And no ethernet conectivity. > > > > The Fix: Update bios from asus' website. I guess their ACPI was screwed > > up. This is the second time I've had to update this MB to fix > > incompatibilities with Linux. So, watch out with Asus boards on Linux. > > > > BTW - Linux 2.4's driver worked fine with the old bios. Only 2.6 didn't > > work. > > Some additional info, I've been investigating this for a few hours, and > it appears that (a) IRQ 18 on my system is shared by ide0 and ide1, and > that the IRQ storm seems to start the first time I use ide1 (DVD only). > > I will be posting a bunch of dmesg results when/if the system reboots, > but acpi={off,ht} doesn't help, pollirq doesn't help, and system > shutdown leaves the system unbootable without a full (pull the power > cord) hardware power cycle. > > Questions: > 1 - do you have trouble rebooting after a failure?
Since I flashed my bios, no more problems, so I've had no more failures
> 2 - do you see the IRQ 18 storm start just after the first use of ide1?
No. I got it when I used the ethernet, which was on IRQ 18. I'm not using ide0 and ide1 on my board. I'm using a 3ware SATA RAID controller
> 3 - and of course if you can get up in console mode, are ide0 and ide1 > shared?
I think they are, although I can't be sure since I am not using them - They don't show up in my /proc/interrupts.
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