Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (314 mails)

[Harald Milz <hm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Angerhofer <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Stefan Suurmeijer wrote:
> > Ok. I found a few references on the internet about people that had 
> > experienced lock-ups as well, and mentioned their being something wrong 
> > with the kernel module for the Marvell Gbit NIC
> No problems here. I used this board with SuSE 9.1 64 bit and now since a
> couple of months 9.2 64 bit without any network problems. I have the
> Marvell sit on my Westell DSL modem and another network card to supply
> connectivity to another computer in the home.

I did have bad problems with the sk98lin driver. My NIS/NFS server
serves the /home, and nearly each time I logged into my A8V workstation,
it froze immediately. Disabling the Marvell chip and using an RTL8139
made that go away for good.

According to Andi Kleen's comments on this list from Jan 6/7, 2005,
this is a known problem but it hasn't been fixed yet (at least not in
2.6.8-SL92_BRANCH_20050216124101-default). This problem seems not to
occur with every IP protocol but NFS is apparently one of them.

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