Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:00:25 -0500 (EST) | From | "Kevin M. Myer" <> | Subject | Kernel oops with 2.3.[39-40] + 0.91x |
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Hello,
Relevant info:
RedHat 6.1 AMD K6-2 400Mhz processor FIC 503+ Motherboard 128Mb PC100 DRAM Kingston KNE-100TX ethernet card
I've been using Donald Becker's kern-2.3 drivers, in this case, the Tulip 0.91x driver. The card comes up ok and everything works fine for awhile and then my network connection will freeze. Sometimes there's a message about eth0 being hung but more often than not, the logs show no indication that anything is wrong. Often, I can just restart the interface and everything continues. However, about 25% of the time, I get a kernel oops when I do this (see below) . All further attempts to use ifconfig generate this oops including (obviously) the one in the shutdown script. This results in me having to do a hard reboot, with the obligitory looooong fsck.
On a perhaps related note, I also appear to have some SCSI related hardware problems, wherein the bus is reset way too often. From a purely anecdotal viewpoint, it seems my SCSI problems and ethernet card problems exacerbate one another, although it might be purely coincidence. I don't know if this sheds any light on the problem or not.
I know that kernel 2.3.X is winding down and is mostly in a feature freeze. It would seem, however, that Donald's 2.3.X ethernet drivers, haven't had the chance to undergo a lot of testing, since they haven't even been included in the official kernel release yet. I know that to use my Tulip card, I need at least a 0.91g driver - the 0.89H driver won't work. So is the idea to ship a 2.4 kernel that supports a bunch of older cards but not many of the newer ones?
The oops:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 80000073 printing eip: c01f2298 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c01f2298>] EFLAGS: 00010206 eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c9006000 edx: 7fffffff esi: 00000000 edi: c126fb00 ebp: c9006000 esp: c30adeb4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process ifconfig (pid: 1227, stackpage=c30ad000) Stack: c9006030 c126f800 c9006030 c01f23e1 c1276400 0000000a c1276400 c126fc98 00001043 c1276400 00001042 00000000 c018a7b2 c1276400 00001043 c1276400 c018b2b5 c1276400 c1276400 00008914 00000000 c30adf4c c018b3ce c1276400 Call Trace: [<c01f23e1>] [<c018a7b2>] [<c018b2b5>] [<c018b3ce>] [<c018b89e>] [<c01b3e47>] [<c0186cd1>] [<c0137a57>] [<c010be64>] Code: ff 4a 74 0f 94 c0 84 c0 74 09 52 e8 44 6e f9 ff 83 c4 04 c7
The contents of /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast eth0: 2962783 18446 0 0 0 0 0 0 dummy: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 lo: 14399 225 0 0 0 0 0 0
Transmit bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed 1064134 15542 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14399 225 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thanks,
Kevin
-- ~ Kevin M. Myer . . Network/System Administrator /V\ ELANCO School District // \\ /( )\ ^`~'^
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