Network Activity Halts using 10/100 ethernet adapter.

[Greg Wickham]

Howdy,

I've been using linux 2.2.0-pre5 and have just been allocated
some new i386 hardware. This is hardware is ACER (brand name)
and has onboard ethernet.

Unfortunately, the ethernet regularly locks up. I'm using the
same kernel on a number of different pc's (but this is the
only one with the 10/100 card, all the rest are tulip's).

Is there a known (or unknown) bug?

I can't ping, telnet or anything when a lock up occurs and
no kernel messages are left in syslog.

The lockup 'unfreezes' after a few minutes.

   -Greg

Jan  8 10:22:34 128-184-129-180 kernel: eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet at 0x9000, 00:00:E2:11:AD:75,
 IRQ 10.
Jan  8 10:22:34 128-184-129-180 kernel:   Board assembly 098109-001, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Jan  8 10:22:34 128-184-129-180 kernel:   Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
Jan  8 10:22:34 128-184-129-180 kernel:   General self-test: passed.
Jan  8 10:22:34 128-184-129-180 kernel:   Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Jan  8 10:22:34 128-184-129-180 kernel:   Internal registers self-test: passed.
Jan  8 10:22:34 128-184-129-180 kernel:   ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x24c9f043).
Jan  8 10:22:34 128-184-129-180 kernel:   Receiver lock-up workaround activated.

(If this isn't the card for this mailing list then apologies.)

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