Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels

From: Mr. Big (mrbig@sneaker.sch.bme.hu)
Date: Sat Nov 25 2000 - 13:44:49 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
Ok, we're on the way to try to avoid the use of that ethernet card anyway

>
> > 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

Ok, I'll try. Since I'm not a kernel developer, I have the fool question,
wether it is enough to overwrite the .c and .h files in the 2.2.14 source
tree, or do I need to apply other changes too?

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