Re: 3C905b partial lockup in 2.4.5-pre5 and up to 2.4.6-pre1

[Glenn C. Hofmann]

Andrew,
Although I don't run Redhat, your response tells me that, even though I was feeling that it was a kernel problem, it could be a userspace issue, which I also suspected. Debian updated their nettools today, so I will see if that helps in any way. Thanks for your help.

Glenn C. Hofmann


On Sunday, 10 June 2001 Andrew wrote:

> "Glenn C. Hofmann" wrote:
> >
> > I have tried 2.4.5-pre2 up to 2.4.6-pre1 with the same results.
> > Everything boots great and I can login fine. When I try to assign
> > an IP via DHCP or ifconfig, the system sits and stares at me
> > indefinitely. 2.4.5-pre4 didn't compile for me, but pre3 works fine
> > and pre5 locks. There is keyboard response, and Alt-SysRq will tell
> > me that it knows I want it to sync the disks, but won't actually do
> > it. It will reboot, though. I can switch between terminals, but
> > cannot type anything at the login prompt.
> >
> > The board is a Abit KT7-RAID. I have waited to see if this issue
> > has been resolved and will recompile the newer kernels (AC and Linus
> > flavours) to see if it has cleared up, but wanted to see if maybe
> > there is something else I should look at. I can provide any more
> > information that might help, so please let me know. Thanks in
> > advance.
>
> There's a problem in some versions of `pump' where it gets
> confused and ends up spinning indefinitely. If you're using
> pump could you please try the latest RPM?
>
> If that doesn't help, and if you're unable to kill pump
> with ^C, and if other virtual consoles are not responding then
> it could be a kernel problem - try hitting sysrq-T and feeding
> the resulting logs through `ksymoops -m System.map'
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