Re: [Problem] 3c90x on 2.4.3-ac3

[Prasanna P Subash]

Thats right. ACPI was what made 3c90x not work :( With APM it works perfectly.

Thanks Marcus.

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:14:56AM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> In article <[e-mail]> you wrote:
> 
> > hi lkml,
> > 	I just built 2.4.3-ac3 with my old 2.4.2 .config and somehow networking does not work. 
> > dhclient eventually froze the machine.
> 
> > here is what dhclient complains.
> 
> > [root@psubash linux]# cat /tmp/error.txt
> > skb: pf=2 (unowned) dev=lo len=328
> > PROTO=17 0.0.0.0:68 255.255.255.255:67 L=328 S=0x10 I=0 F=0x0000 T=16
> > DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
> > ip_local_deliver: bad loopback skb: PRE_ROUTING LOCAL_IN
> > skb: pf=2 (unowned) dev=lo len=328
> > PROTO=17 0.0.0.0:68 255.255.255.255:67 L=328 S=0x10 I=0 F=0x0000 T=16
> > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
> > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
> > DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
> > ip_local_deliver: bad loopback skb: PRE_ROUTING LOCAL_IN
> > skb: pf=2 (unowned) dev=lo len=328
> 
> > Here is my ver_linux info
> 
> ...
> > CONFIG_ACPI=y
> 
> The ACPI powermanagement for the 3c59x devices appears to be a bit broken.
> 
> Disable ACPI support. Recompile. Reboot. Watch problem disappear hopefully.
> 
> Ciao, Marcus