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

[Antonio Marcos López Alonso <amlopezalonso@gmail.com>]

El Miércoles 07 Octubre 2009, Ben Hutchings escribió:
> 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.
> 

Still waiting :-).

Googling around I found this bug is quite old:

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0302.1/0966.html

And this:

http://fixunix.com/suse/125711-problem-via-rhine-ii-eth0.html

It seems the fix is not the same for everyone.

Supposing the only fix by now is a kernel option, should I close this bug?

Antonio