Lists (lst) wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Donald Becker wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Lists (lst) wrote: > > > > > Why the net drivers from the 2.4.18 are so old? Why are not updated from > > > > > the scyld.com (made by Donald Becker)? > > > > Lots of history involved in answering that question :) > > > > Basically, Linus's and Becker's development styles are different. > > > With the Donald's driver after 2 days of usage I receive this: > > > > Jul 24 08:29:01 lapd eth3: IRQ 5 is physically blocked! Failing back to low-rate polling. > > > > This means either that > > the APIC has lost track of the IRQ steering > > (a common bug in 2.2 SMP, but believed fixed in 2.4) > > the chip has disappeared from PCI space > > (a new bug which may have appeared in 2.4.17 or 2.4.18, or is > > perhaps related to overheating or undervoltage) > > > > You can check for the latter problem with 'lspci'. The NIC chip will > > show up as something other than a "Ethernet Controller". > > When the problem re-appears I will try to check with lspci. The traffic on > that NIC it's someware about 50Mb/s (constantly), if this helps. We have a couple of gigabit ethernet cards/chips. These tend to get pretty hot: Sometimes we swap them around, and burn our fingers on the chip... Then we always get reminded to try and put a fan on it.... Roger. -- ** R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2600998 ** *-- BitWizard writes Linux device drivers for any device you may have! --* * There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots. * There are also old, bald pilots. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
