Re: Problem moving from Redhat 7.1 to RedHat 8.0

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Ross Macintyre wrote:

> I manage 2 groups of machines (as well as others) that are giving me 
> horrendous problems trying to put RedHat 8.0 on them.

[[ I'll skip the "why RH8?" question. ]]

> They are old Viglen machines. One group are Genie2 and the others are 
> Contender2's. They contain 'Boomerang' and 'Cyclone' ethernet cards.
> 
> I have left one machine at 7.1 and it still works fine, The other 30 
> machines have all had RedHat 8.0 installed on them and at first all 
> seemed to be working fine but now I notice that they all lose their 
> connections to the network after about 5 to 10 minutes after a 
> reboot.

That's a curious time period.  Are you certain that they work at all?

> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

Which driver version are you using?

> eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000.
>   diagnostics: net 0cc0 media 8802 dma 00000000.
>   Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 1(1) current 17(1)
>   Transmit list 00000000 vs. c2462240.

This looks as if no packets have been sent, and the IRQ is blocked.

What is the interrupt count in /proc/interrupts?

If it's an IRQ problem, check the kernel messages while setting up the
"APIC" (well before the driver is loaded) for warnings or problem reports.

> I also tried updating the BIOS but also no joy.

This had a better chance of fixing a problem than you might expect..

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