Olaf Hering wrote:
On Thu, Feb 15, nicola moretti wrote:
Hi all,
Can please someone tell me if there are known issues with the beige G3 on-board Ethernet and SuSE 6.4 (kernel 2.2.14)? Better yet, where can I look for further info/docs?
There is either a bug in the hardware that stops the package transfer (and maybe lockup the machine) or there is a bug in the driver. This is a known behaviour and it is possible that it still occours with recent kernels (2.2.19pre or 2.4.2pre).
Olaf, thank you for the reply. At least now I know that I'm not that MUCH stupid and unskilled... Sidenote: having disabled the on-board Ethernet, it now *seems* that the computer is also more responsive (not to mention stable... dozens of nmap and nessus scans with no trouble at all).
I never had that bug with our beige G3, there are some different chipset revisions.
Three "official" logic board revisions, as far as I can tell from Apple's tech spec DB (maybe even more "actual" revs? Apple doesn't always roll minor modifications to new part numbers). Being it a 233 G3, I guess that I'm using the oldest one. I have two identical G3s here, one of them 100% for testing: if you want, I can make whatever further testing you may need for identifying this bug; just drop me a note.
Please tell me what you do exactly with nmap. Maybe I can trigger that bug here.
Nothing strange: two or three 'nmap -sT -O' are usually enough to crash. But if you haven't encountered the problem yet, I guess that you'll never hit it at all: my machines crash anyways, with or without nmap, it's just a matter of patience... (3-5 days average uptime, with very very light system load)
Gruss Olaf
regards nicola