Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

[Jay Estabrook <Jay.Estabrook@hp.com>]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:36:30AM +1000, Craig Small wrote:
> 
> I have to stay on the 2.4.18 kernel and no other subsequent kernel will
> work for my PC164SX. It may, somehow, have something to do with it or
> be a completely unrelated problem.
> 
> The new kernels mess up the PCI bus, so I get screens of logs with:
> May  3 20:12:27 fozzie kernel: eth0: Host error, FIFO diagnostic register 0000.
> May  3 20:12:27 fozzie kernel: eth0: PCI bus error, bus status 40000020
> May  3 20:12:27 fozzie kernel: eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status e003.
> 
> This happens for the following kernels:
>  2.4.24 Debian package
>  2.4.24 custom made
>  2.5.26 Debian package
>  2.6.5 Debian package
>  2.6.5 custom
> 
> I'm sitting on Debian kernel package 2.4.18, this works but has some
> other issues.  Any idea what has gone wrong?

Any chance you could provide us with a log of "lspci -v"?

 --Jay++

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