Re: Correction: 2.2.15-SMP, eepro100, elusive boot failure

From: Andrey Savochkin (saw@saw.sw.com.sg)
Date: Fri May 19 2000 - 02:50:42 EDT

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    Hello,

    On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 11:17:03AM +0200, Cedric Ware wrote:
    > On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 12:39:05PM +0200, Cedric Ware wrote:
    > > the problem has been reproduced with the penultimate one (Andrey Savochkin's
    > > revision 1.20.2.3) but not yet with the prior version (1.20).
    >
    > Correction to my previous post: the problem has occured with 1.20 today.
    > Same hang at boot with "eth0: card reports no RX buffers" and so on.
    > Seems to prefer mornings... I've downgraded to 1.18, fifteen reboots,
    > no problems so far.
    >
    > I've been thinking of swapping the hard drives with a previous-generation
    > PowerEdge 2300 which has had no problems for a year (kernel 2.2.14, which
    > doesn't do SMP on the 2400's), but there are a few week-long simulations
    > running on it, so I have to wait.
    >
    > Any ideas?

    First of all, try the newer driver from latest Alan's prepatch or from
    ftp://ftp.sw.com.sg/pub/Linux/people/saw/kernel/v2.2/
    They contain at least one timing fix which may be relevant.

    If it doesn't help, let me know. We will debug it step-by-step.

    Best regards
                                            Andrey V.
                                            Savochkin

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