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Bug#549606: [linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64] VIA-Rhine II network interface lost connectivity



On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 11:38 +0100, Antonio Marcos López Alonso wrote:
> 
> 
> 2009/10/6 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
>         On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 23:26 +0100, Antonio Marcos López Alonso
>         wrote:
>         > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Ben Hutchings
>         <ben@decadent.org.uk>
>         > wrote:
>         
>         [...]
>         > > Could you try adding 'noapic' to the kernel command line?
>         >
>         > Sure. Here is /proc/interrupts using irqpoll + noapic (yet
>         no much time
>         > has passed to reproduce the failure):
>         
>         [...]
>         
>         Do you mean this bug still occurs when you use 'noapic'?
>         
>         Ben.
>         
> 
> No, I mean I'm still waiting for the bug to occur.

Excellent.

> I will do it for around 72 hours (crossing fingers). Anyway, what is
> your opinion about what is happening? I guess this is not very common.

I think that there may be a bug in the way the BIOS sets up the IO-APIC,
but I don't really understand what sorts of things can go wrong with
this.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer.

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