Re: Hangs with new Realtek driver in ac5.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:39:11 +0100 (BST)

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> Using the updated rtl8139 in 2.3.18ac5 turned out to be not really a
> pleasure. Actually, the card reliably hangs in rtl8129_open(). And it
> hangs the whole machine, "hang" meaning I can't even use the ATX power
> switch to turn it off. Don't even think about magic syskeys and the like.

At that point you have to ask some hard questions about the hardware. An ATX
level crash is normally a PCI bus hang. In this case the change you have
made is disabling PCI posting, and it could easily be a real PCI posting
bug if there are delay loops involved.

What chipset is this ?

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