Re: Onboard rtl8139 works in 2.2 kernel but not in 2.4 kernel, please help
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 17:23, Donald Spoon wrote:
> I have lost the OP's message, so I will reply to this one instead in the
> hopes it gets seen.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200303/msg02001.html
> Over the last 4-5 months of monitoring this list, I have seen a
> "handfull" of complaints like this involving various NICs. IIRC, most
> of them have involved the RTL 8139 chipset but I could be wrong on this.
I will do a search.
> There have been several "solutions" posted... you might want to search
> the past few months of Debian-User on the topic "APIC". I can't find a
> specific one right now, so here is what I recall off the top of my head:
>
> 1. Try turning APIC "off" in the BIOS if you can. It seems that if the
> BIOS pre-configures it, then the kernel can become "confused", and has
> been reported to lock the system at boot-time.
>
> 2. Try passing the command "append=noapic" to the kernel via LILO (edit
> /etc/lilo.conf and add this line).
>
> 3. Recompile your kernel and turn off APIC support.
As noted in another email, my server is down until I get non-junk RAM. Thanks
for the hint though, I will definitely try the APIC hint and see what I can
dredge up from the archives.
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Fraser Campbell <fraser@wehave.net> http://wehave.net/
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