Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 25 2000 - 13:25:07 EST


> benn compiled into the kernel, and not as a module) always gave the
> errors:
>
> eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0090 at 134704418/134704432
> eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter...

Known problem. This one might be fixed in current 2.2.18pre. SOme people
see it some dont

> mistake... But we couldn't go back to oldier kernels (because of the Mylex
> card) so the only possibility is to go forward: we compiled the
> 2.4.0-test11 kernel. It could be usefull also because of the khttpd, at
> least we could free up some memory used by the apache.

You can copy the 2.2.17 updated mylex driver into 2.2.14 and rebuild a kernel
that way. In fact that would be a good test

I'd also be interested to know if 2.2.17 + Rik's vm patch (or + Andrea's
vm patch) is stable. (Rik and Andrea have differing views how to fix it but
both claim they have 8))

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