Bug 55910
| Summary: | [3c59x] Network problem: ~4 hrs post boot 3c905 NIC disabled permanently by APM on Compaq Deskpro | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Normand Robert <sub1> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | peterm |
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| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-01-18 23:58:43 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Normand Robert
2001-11-08 16:48:12 UTC
Clarifications. System is a Compaq DeskPro. System ran RH6.1 for months without reboots until last week when RH 7.2 was added. Problem occurs when booting in RH7.2 and has occured consistently following first and second installation of RH7.2 System was not upgraded. RH7.2 was installed on a 2nd HD. RH6.1 still available for boot via floppy. I had a similar problem after updating from 6.x to 7.2. The system had two 3c59x based cards and one of the cards was not working after a while. When swapping the two cards, the other interface was shutting down after a while. I decided to change the card instead of investigating the problem further as I needed to get the machine back up right away. You may want to see if the apm service is running as it was also showing up in the log at about the same time and I believe it may be the cause of the problem, restarting the network services. Workaround: The problem can be fixed by shutting down Advanced Power Management (APM). There may be a better workaround than this involving setting NET_RESTART="no" NETFS_RESTART="no" in /etc/sysconfig/apmd to prevent only the network from being shut down but I have not yet tried this. I have the same problem on a standard-non-apm-system with the stock RH-Kernel
(2.4.7) - after a while, the 3c905 ("Votex/Boomerang/Tornado et. al") simply
drops the link.
I've had this problem also on a 2.4.17 custom compiled.
Seems that my custom 2.4.18 works fine with those cards.
Can this be verified as fixed in the current 8.0, or stock kernel.org 3c59x driver? No response after multiple months, I'm going to close this bug. Please file a new bug if this continues to occur in 8.0 release, 8.1 beta, or the latest errata kernel for 7.0/7.1/7.2. |