Re: network hang

[Sourav Sen <sourav@csa.iisc.ernet.in>]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Thomas Hofer wrote:

Hi Thomas,

> I had great troubles with the rtl8139 driver. I install everything from 
> a linux-nfs with a rtl8139-card (2.2.14 IIRC), and the Redhat-install 
> and the SuSE-install stopped everytime without reason and hung (client 
> also with rtl8139 and 2.4.0 or 2.2.14). Later I found out that the 
> rtl8139-driver was the culprit (SuSE's support database suggested it). 
> When I used Jeff Garzik's alternative driver-implementation (8139too) 

	Could you kindly tell me where to get that from for RH6.2 (2.2.14
kernel). And any possible suggestions if needed to make it work properly.

regards
sourav

> which comes with later kernels, everthing worked fine. I'd try to 
> upgrade to 2.2.19 and to use this driver.
> 
> But recently I discovered that there is still a problem: when I tried 
> to record video over nfs, the server shut down two times; and when I 
> copied a 1.5GB-directory, the server froze completeley, printing a 
> message from an interrupt-handler that died painfully. This was with 
> 8139too on 2.2.18pre21. I upgraded to 2.2.19 and it _seems_ to work 
> better (no shutdown yet), but I still have heaps of abnormal-interrupt 
> messages concerning eth0 in my dmesg (status 00000011 and 00000051 - 
> can anybody tell me what that means?). It's plusungood. :-[
> 
> Thomas.
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