On Tuesday 11 March 2003 17:23, Donald Spoon wrote: > I have lost the OP's message, so I will reply to this one instead in the > hopes it gets seen.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200303/msg02001.html > Over the last 4-5 months of monitoring this list, I have seen a > "handfull" of complaints like this involving various NICs. IIRC, most > of them have involved the RTL 8139 chipset but I could be wrong on this. I will do a search. > There have been several "solutions" posted... you might want to search > the past few months of Debian-User on the topic "APIC". I can't find a > specific one right now, so here is what I recall off the top of my head: > > 1. Try turning APIC "off" in the BIOS if you can. It seems that if the > BIOS pre-configures it, then the kernel can become "confused", and has > been reported to lock the system at boot-time. > > 2. Try passing the command "append=noapic" to the kernel via LILO (edit > /etc/lilo.conf and add this line). > > 3. Recompile your kernel and turn off APIC support. As noted in another email, my server is down until I get non-junk RAM. Thanks for the hint though, I will definitely try the APIC hint and see what I can dredge up from the archives. -- Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://wehave.net/ Brampton, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
