Which driver are you using for your nic?  ne?

I had random lockups with 1.6.2RC's too, and I narrowed them down to the
network adapter.  I replaced it by a new one and it's working flawless now, so
I thought it just broke down.

But now you make me doubt... maybe a driver problem?

Cheers



On Friday 27 February 2004 06:14, James Burton wrote:
> About 6 months ago I upgraded my desktop from 1.5 to 1.6.1
> and ever since then I have had regular lockups. The result is I
> can't get any sort of response from the machine and have to press the reset
> button. There are 2 sure-fire ways of causing this immediately.
>
> 1. start an XDMCP client pointed at it's xdm server (e.g. from my WinXP box
> run Cygwin/Xfree in XDMCP client mode)
>
> 2. access any web page with a CGI behind it hosted on Mr. Crashy's httpd.
>
> It will also periodially lock itself when I've looked at lots of photos
> from the web server or played a lot of mp3 over samba etc.
>
> Seems by behaviour to be related to network activity.
> This morning I upgraded to 1.6.2RC4 in vain hope of it going away.
> I've just run memtest for nearly 2 hours and found no memory probs.
> A few weeks ago I re-compiled a kernel with kernel debugger in
> and wasn't able to get it to drop into the debugger after the lockup.
>
> I am now officially stumped.
> I'm going to try current on it, but thats a right-royal PITA.
> Does anybody have any suggestions as to how I might find out more?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
> ---
> James Burton (james@jmsh.net)           like the time when you felt like
>                                         you're feeling all the time.

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