> On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > 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 ?
>
[lots of hardware info snipped]
>
> Is anyone else able to use the vanilla rtl8139 in ac5?
ac5 hangs right after "Now booting the kernel...", rtl8139 is
compiled in (daniels is modular). My Chipset is an old
Intel FX.
Richard.
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