Re: 2.4.4-ac[356]: network (8139too) related crashes

[Martin Josefsson]

On Mon, 28 May 2001, Andris Pavenis wrote:

> On Sunday 27 May 2001 02:34, Alan Cox wrote:
[snip]
> > Can you try 2.4.5 with the 8139too.c file from the 2.4.3-ac3 that works for
> > you and report on that
> 
> Done. 
> 
> Seems that taking 8139too.o from 2.4.3-ac3 fixes the problem. 
> 
> Tortured it much more as it was required to get 2.4.4-ac[356] and 2.4.5. to 
> freeze (FTP uploads and downloads totally more than 100Mb with speed about
> 600Kb/s, for bad version of 8138too.c about 10Mb was usually more than enough
> for freezing)

I've also been having problems with 2.4.4 (and 2.4.4-ac10).
But my problems havn't been very easy to trigger as sometimes it happens
after a few hours and sometimes after 4 days.

I have a 8139A card.

The machine ran 2.4.2-ac6 for a long time without any problems, and then I
switched to 2.4.4 and it hung after 1 day. It was a silent deadlock, it
didn't print anything on the screen and it didn't respond to anything.

Then I switched to the 8139too driver from 2.4.2-ac6 to see if it's
stable. It has 2 days of uptime now so I'll have to wait some more until
I can say if it's stable or not.

/Martin