On trying 2.4.1-ac13 I hit the tulip driver problems reported elsewhere, and ac14 does not seem to fix the problem on my machine. Attached is an extract from my /var/log/messages. Stephen Thomas
Feb 15 16:07:32 triumph kernel: Linux version 2.4.1-ac14 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Thu Feb 15 15:53:08 GMT 2001 [ ... ] Feb 15 16:07:33 triumph kernel: Detected 400.915 MHz processor. [ ... ] Feb 15 16:07:33 triumph kernel: Memory: 126652k/131008k available (1009k kernel code, 3968k reserved, 372k data, 188k init, 0k highmem) [ ... ] Feb 15 16:07:35 triumph kernel: CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 01 [ ... ] Feb 15 16:07:39 triumph kernel: Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.13b (January 24, 2001) Feb 15 16:07:39 triumph kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:10.0 Feb 15 16:07:39 triumph kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xe400, 00:C0:F0:2C:2B:3A, IRQ 10. Feb 15 16:07:39 triumph kernel: eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7829 advertising 01e1. [ ... ] Feb 15 16:07:54 triumph amd[601]: vim:/ mounted fstype host on /.automount/vim/root Feb 15 16:08:03 triumph ypbind[373]: unknown: RPC: Timed out Feb 15 16:08:06 triumph kernel: nfs: server vim not responding, still trying Feb 15 16:08:06 triumph last message repeated 2 times Feb 15 16:08:07 triumph kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Feb 15 16:08:14 triumph PAM-securetty[741]: Couldn't open /etc/securetty Feb 15 16:08:15 triumph kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Feb 15 16:08:19 triumph amd[601]: file server vim type nfs is down Feb 15 16:08:23 triumph kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Feb 15 16:08:55 triumph last message repeated 4 times Feb 15 16:08:57 triumph ypbind[373]: broadcast: RPC: Timed out. Feb 15 16:09:03 triumph kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Feb 15 16:09:35 triumph last message repeated 4 times Feb 15 16:09:51 triumph last message repeated 2 times Feb 15 16:09:55 triumph kernel: nfs: task 99 can't get a request slot Feb 15 16:09:59 triumph kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Feb 15 16:10:01 triumph ypbind[373]: broadcast: RPC: Timed out. Feb 15 16:10:07 triumph kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Feb 15 16:10:11 triumph PAM-securetty[772]: Couldn't open /etc/securetty Feb 15 16:10:15 triumph kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Feb 15 16:10:47 triumph last message repeated 4 times