Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:31:01 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Asus P4C800-E Deluxe and Intel Pro/1000 |
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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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