On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:31:53PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: : : :I discovered a problem possibly related to the new interrupt code. My Toshiba : :laptop has a LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 PC Card NIC that always worked fine : :before. : : : :Now, the card gives messages about 'IRQ 11 livelock exceeded 50000' or : :something similar. If more details are needed, I can provide them when I get : :home later this afternoon. : : : :The messages continue repeating over and over, and DHCP is never able to get : :an address. : : : :jm : : Hmm. Well, the interrupt routing code hasn't actually been changed, : it works the same as it did before (or should). But there have been : changes made to the livelock detection code as well as changes made : to ACPI, and some work has been done on the interrupt handler. : : So try: : : * Try booting without ACPI
This old laptop doesn't like ACPI, so I have it turned off. : * Try increasing the livelock limit (kern.livelock_limit) to 100000. : (though I doubt this fix the problem). I'll try that today. : Also, try booting older ISOs (assuming your laptop has a CD drive) : and see at what point the failure begins. I went from the last preview a month or so ago to HEAD, so that would make backtracking a bit more difficult. Especially since I don't really have the bandwidth to burn a bunch of ISOs. Is there anything else I can do to narrow down the problem? jm -- 'What's good for the goose is good for the gander. What the hell is a gander, anyway?' - George Costanza
