Re: e1000 lockup in linux 2.6.9-rc2

[Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, David S. Miller wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:53:15 +0300 (EEST)
> Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > When I started large data transfers in 100 Mb/s network, my computer very 
> > soon locked totally (i.e., not responding to network, keyboard and mouse 
> > dead). This had not happened for several days with 2.6.9-rc2 when the 
> > network activity had been light (1 Mb/s DSL).
> > 
> > Some experimentation showed that the lockups were caused by this patch 
> > fragment in 2.6.9-rc2:
> 
> Please make sure you have this patch in your
> tree, it should fix your problem:
> 
I did not have this patch. Installed it and I can confirm that it fixes 
the problem.

Thanks,
-- 
Kai