RE: Poweredge 2650 Hangs after Redhat kernel upgrade

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> We purchased a Poweredge 2650 in September and it's been 
> running well for 3
> months, however after a up2date kernel patch from 2.4.18-17.7.xsmp to
> 2.4.18-18.7.xsmp this weekend, the computer started to "hard" 
> freeze every few hours.

Yes, there is a bug in the tg3 network driver which causes this lockup - it
will be fixed in the next Red Hat errata release (the one after -18).  Until
then, change tg3 to bcm5700 in /etc/modules.conf and reboot.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer, Architect
Dell Linux Solutions www.dell.com/linux
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