Re: arcnet/com90xx still breaks 2.1.93

David Woodhouse (Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 09 Apr 1998 12:11:08 +0200


>

Have you got anything else using IRQ 7?

Make sure that the parport drivers aren't loaded, and try to get a dump and
trace of the oops output. Also enable all the debugging in the ARCnet drivers.

Does anyone feel like sending me a couple of ARCnet cards so I can
look into this one?

> Hi,
>
> it's too bad, but arcnet with the com90xx driver is still crashing 2.1.93.
>
> insmod arcnet
> insmod com90xx irq=7 io=0x2e0
>
> works as expected. And /var/adm/syslog tells me:
>
> Apr 7 17:31:11 garfield kernel: arcnet.c: v3.00 97/11/09 Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@bond.net> et al.
> Apr 7 17:41:11 garfield kernel: Available protocols: ARCnet RFC1201, Ethernet-Encap, ARCnet RFC1051.
> Apr 7 17:41:11 garfield kernel: Don't forget to load the chipset driver.
> Apr 7 17:41:19 garfield kernel: com90xx.c: v3.00 97/11/09 Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@bond.net> et al.
> Apr 7 17:41:19 garfield kernel: arc0: ARCnet COM90xx: station 04h found at 2E0h, IRQ 7, ShMem D0000h (1*800h).
>
> When I execute
>
> ifconfig arc0 192.168.1.1 up
>
> the kernel crashes with a kernel panic, telling me problems with
> the interrupt handler (0002) (what does that 0002 mean??) and
> tell me, that the problem occured in the process "swapper".
>
> It's impossible to sync the system with the help of the magic SysRQ key,
> and it's also impossible to track the details of the kernel panic.
> The stack trace execced my screen :-((
>
> Anyone to help me?
>
> Thank you
> Christoph
>
>
>
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