Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG with 2.4.5

[Andrew Morton]

Tim Timmerman wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "kees" == kees  <[e-mail]> 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