Re: via-rhine apparently broken in 2.4.23-pre4

From: Dave Jones
Date: Fri Sep 19 2003 - 08:04:23 EST


On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:58:21AM +0200, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> Unverified (due to lack of hardware) report from a user:
>
> Updating from 2.4.22 to 2.4.23-pre4 breaks networking with an onboard VIA
> Rhine II chip.
>
> It seems to transfer about 2 kB of data, then stall forever.

It sends packets, but doesn't receive any. To get it working I needed
to apply Andrew de Quincey's ACPI IRQ fixes which are in -ac/-pac
(These, or variants of are must-haves for 2.4.23).

A workaround in the meantime is to boot with pci=noacpi

Dave

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