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Re: Linux 1.2.8 sudden death - SMC the cause?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matti E. Aarnio [OH1MQK])
Thu May 25 16:58:18 1995
From: "Matti E. Aarnio [OH1MQK]" <mea@mea.cc.utu.fi>
To: dhollis@hq.jcic.org (Daniel Hollis)
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 22:36:16 +0300 (EET DST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0sEfcS-000xAdC@hq.jcic.org> from "Daniel Hollis" at May 25, 95 09:18:44 am
From: dhollis@hq.jcic.org (Daniel Hollis)
> From: gpg109@rsphy1.anu.edu.au (Paul Gortmaker)
> > > Been having problems with 1.2.8 hanging, it locks up hard. No response to
> > > pings, no disk activity, and no keyboard response.
> > > eth0 is WD80x3 at 0x280 IRQ 15, shared mem at 0xd0000-0xd1fff
> > Something is seriously wrong here, as you are using a "16 bit"
> > interrupt, buy you only report 8k of packet buffer space, which
> > would indicate you are using an 8 bit card (i.e. a wd8003).
> > Unless this is an el-cheapo EEPROM-less clone...
>
> This is an SMC Ultra. It's being _auto detected_ by the WD code. The SMC
> is a 16 bit card, in a 16 bit slot.
It is entirely possible that the SMC-Ultra has lost its mind
sometime recently. Do reset its configuration with EZSETUP
utility (from DOS, naturally), and its EEPROM should be sane
again. (My systems have suffered of that phenomena a few
times -- most difficulties have been on machines which mostly
run MSDOS, and only occasionally Linux..)
Oh yes, the identification from properly acting card has
"SMC Ultra" in its line, not "WD80x3" ...
...
> Would it also be the cause of crashes, or is it something else?
>
> BTW -- 1.2.1 is relatively stable, 1.2.8 hangs frequently. Same hardware.
Could be anything, what is your hardware setup ?
> -Dan
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