[eepro100] eepro100, weird log lines and lockup

Mikael Svenson mikaels@powertech.no
Wed Nov 27 10:24:29 2002


I'm running 2.4.19 (with ac4 patch for an ide controller).

I don't have "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" enabled since it's a
single CPU machine, but I'll add the paramter and see how it goes.
Thanks.

Regards,
Mikael

Donald Becker wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Mikael Svenson wrote:
> 
> > Donald Becker wrote:
> > > What does
> > >    eepro100-diag -a
> > > report at that point?
> >
> > Nov 27 09:52:16 proxy kernel: eth0: IRQ 5 is still blocked!
> > Nov 27 09:52:20 proxy su(pam_unix)[21688]: session opened for user root
> > by zoneboy(uid=500)
> > Nov 27 09:52:26 proxy kernel: eth0: IRQ 5 is still blocked!
> 
> Ahhhh, that error message helps again.
> 
> What kernel were you running again?
> Your kernel seems to have the APIC bug.  Try running with the kernel
> parameter "noapic".
> 
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