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1.2.4 lockup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marek Michalkiewicz)
Mon Apr 10 16:07:30 1995
From: Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 19:42:59 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Linus wrote:
[...]
> 1.2.4 patches, for example: that particular release fixes at least two
> _longstanding_ lockup problems.
Hmmm, there is still at least one in 1.2.4... The system was up 3 days
and locked up today. I can see these random lockups since about 1.1.7x.
Both Linux boxes here have the same type of ethernet card, identified as
(no, not a NE2000...) WD8003-old. Both sometimes lock up. Are there
any known problems with these cards? They are old, probably very few
people still use them, maybe the driver is not tested enough with them?
Of course the lockups may be caused by something else, but just in case,
I am cc'ing this message to linux-net.
These lockups look always the same: no messages, no Ctrl-Alt-Del, no
response to ping. Few days ago the system (running 1.2.2) was up for
13 days without any problems, but for some reason I had to reboot it,
and then it locked up after a few minutes.
Happy hacking,
-- Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxa.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>
