[eepro100] i82555 lock-up

[Luc Lalonde]

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Hello Folks,

I'm trying to pin down the source of my system lockups.  I've got an
onboard(SystemWorks) i82555 network card on a Dell PowerEdge2400 and I
suspect that it's the source of my lock-ups.

I'm running kernel 2.4.7 now but the lockup occured with 2.4.7-pre6. 
I've been upgrading my kernel every time I had a lock-up since 2.4.2. 
Yesterday, before the last lockup I was noticing that using automounting
from clients to this system was slow.  NFS was also sluggish.  The
previous crashes occurred during my Amanda network backups.

I the kernel messages it says that the workaround is enabled...Could it
be that there are still problems?  Here are the relevant messages:

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Jul 26 09:04:56 merlin kernel: eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro1\
00.html
Jul 26 09:04:56 merlin kernel: eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17
Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.s\
g> and others
Jul 26 09:04:56 merlin kernel: eth0: PCI device 8086:1229,
00:B0:D0:D0:16:27, IRQ 16.
Jul 26 09:04:56 merlin kernel:   Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling
work-around.
Jul 26 09:04:56 merlin kernel:   Board assembly 07195d-000, Physical
connectors present: RJ45
Jul 26 09:04:56 merlin kernel:   Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
Jul 26 09:04:56 merlin kernel:   General self-test: passed.
Jul 26 09:04:56 merlin kernel:   Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Jul 26 09:04:56 merlin kernel:   Internal registers self-test: passed.
Jul 26 09:04:56 merlin kernel:   ROM checksum self-test: passed
(0x04f4518b).
Jul 26 09:04:56 merlin kernel:   Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
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I should also say that I'm using the XFS-filesystem patch. 

Thanks for any pointers that you can provide.
-- 
Luc Lalonde, Responsable du reseau GIREF

Telephone: (418) 656-2131 poste 6623
Courriel: llalonde@giref.ulaval.ca
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