Re: hard lockup on 2.4.20 w/ nfs over frees/wan

From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 10:17:52 EST


On 20 Feb 2003, Shaya Potter wrote:

> moved from the netfinity's onboard pcnet32 adapter to an IBM branded
> Intel epro/100 w/ the intel driver in 2.4.20 and it appears very
> stable. Is it possible the pcnet/32 adapter is broken or the driver is
> buggy?

I've seen other reports of evil in that driver, I have the same Netfinity
hardware (5000's and 5100's) and I'm not even tempted to try a 2.5 kernel
on it as yet. I do have 2.5.59 and 2.5.61-ac1 kernels running in
non-critical systems, however.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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