Re: Realtek 8139 driver or sucky hardware?

2001-06-27 Thread Silviu Marin-Caea
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:34:27 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: > > I have a server that had a Realtek 8139 card that worked nicely under > > normal circumstances. > [...] > > This crazy situation had the server freeze solid, wit

Re: Realtek 8139 driver or sucky hardware?

2001-06-27 Thread Silviu Marin-Caea
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 10:05:20 +0200 Matthias Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: > > > No matter what stupid things I do on it, I shouldn't be able to take the > > kernel down, right? > > > > After I replaced

Realtek 8139 driver or sucky hardware?

2001-06-27 Thread Silviu Marin-Caea
I have a server that had a Realtek 8139 card that worked nicely under normal circumstances. But I made a mistake in a crontab and I had 60 instances of a backup script starting one per minute, all of them wishing to create the same .tar.gz into a samba mounted share. This crazy situation had the

Installation on RAID volume (Mylex controller)

2001-02-02 Thread Silviu Marin-Caea
I want to install on a RAID volume controlled by a Mylex 170. Built an image of a 2.4.1 with DAC960/DAC1100 "compiled in" and copied it over vmlinuz on a Red Hat 7 boot diskette (boot.img). I entered this at the boot prompt boot: linux root=/dev/rd/c0d0 DAC960 appears to detect correctly the v

Re: 2.4.1 DAC960 driver bug or what's going on?

2001-02-01 Thread Silviu Marin-Caea
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:31:44 + (GMT) Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which compiler out of curiosity Works with kgcc. Thank you Alan. I thought RedHat fixed their compiler. -- Systems and Network Administrator - Delta Romania Phone +4093-267961 - To unsubscribe from this list: send

2.4.1 DAC960 driver bug or what's going on?

2001-02-01 Thread Silviu Marin-Caea
Hardware: A plain and honest Intel BX mainboard (AOpen AX6BC with latest BIOS update), Pentium II/333, 64MB RAM, dumb PCI 1MB video card, Mylex AcceleRAID 170 PCI controller, Quantum Atlas IV hard-disks. Kernel 2.4.1 I want to install the system on the RAID volume, and for this purpose I compile

Re: Failure building 2.4 while running 2.4. There is no such thing.

2001-01-09 Thread Silviu Marin-Caea
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:33:29 + (GMT) Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My guess is a bad driver. Two machines with random errors from hardware only > in 2.4 is pushing it - possible but pushing it. One is bad hardware. The other is bad user. I compiled with DMA support for SiS 5513 and

Failure building 2.4 while running 2.4. Success in building 2.4 while running 2.2.

2001-01-09 Thread Silviu Marin-Caea
I have RedHat7, glibc-2.2-9, gcc-2.96-69. I can build 2.4.0 while running kernel 2.2.16. If I try to rebuild 2.4.0 while running the new kernel, I get random compiler errors. It happens on two machines. One of them runs 2.4.0-test12, the other 2.4.0. Both of them with the updates above mentio