Re: Asus P4C800-E Deluxe and Intel Pro/1000

[Bill Davidsen]

Terry Hardie wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
>
> > Terry Hardie wrote:
> >
> > > Well, this has been plauging me for months, and finally figured it out.
> > >
> > > Any 2.6 kernel on my board, would boot, then give errors (paraphrased,
> > > sorry) when I tried to bring up the ethernet:
> > >
> > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> > > IRQ #18: Nobody cared!
> > >
> > > And no ethernet conectivity.
> > >
> > > The Fix: Update bios from asus' website. I guess their ACPI was screwed
> > > up. This is the second time I've had to update this MB to fix
> > > incompatibilities with Linux. So, watch out with Asus boards on Linux.
> > >
> > > BTW - Linux 2.4's driver worked fine with the old bios. Only 2.6 didn't
> > > work.
> >
> > Some additional info, I've been investigating this for a few hours, and
> > it appears that (a) IRQ 18 on my system is shared by ide0 and ide1, and
> > that the IRQ storm seems to start the first time I use ide1 (DVD only).
> >
> > I will be posting a bunch of dmesg results when/if the system reboots,
> > but acpi={off,ht} doesn't help, pollirq doesn't help, and system
> > shutdown leaves the system unbootable without a full (pull the power
> > cord) hardware power cycle.
> >
> > Questions:
> > 1 - do you have trouble rebooting after a failure?
>
>
> Since I flashed my bios, no more problems, so I've had no more failures

I hesitate to try that, since the web page says you must use "real DOS" 
and gives instructions for creating the FD using that. Since I lack both 
DOS and a floppy, that does present problems...

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bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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