Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG with 2.4.5

From: kees (kees@schoen.nl)
Date: Wed Jun 27 2001 - 10:44:35 EST


Hi Andrew,

But why does it work with 2.2.19??

Kees

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Tim Timmerman wrote:
> >
> > >>>>> "kees" == kees <kees@schoen.nl> writes:
> >
> > kees> Hi,
> >
> > kees> I tried 2.4.5 but after a couple of hours I lost all network
> > kees> connectivety. The log shows:
> > <snip>
> > Can I just add a me too here ?
> >
> > System: Abit BP6, Dual Celeron, Ne2k-pci, usb ohci and
> > scanner; 128 Mb Ram, Nvidia TNT2 graphics. Kernel 2.4.5
>
> ne2k and, to a lesser extent, 3c59x do not work correctly on many
> x86 SMP machines because of a problem with the APIC interrupt
> controller.
>
> Probable fixes include booting with the `noapic' option,
> running -ac kernels or applying Maciej's APIC workaround
> patch. There's a copy at http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/apic.txt
>

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