The machine locks up on boot time when bringing up the eth0 (Intel EtherExpress Pro 100) interface. There are no virual interfaces such as eth0:0 eth0:0 aso. For some strange reason it doesn't always lock up, when you skip the BIOS' memory check at boot time. ------- Additional Comments From 11/11/99 05:38 ------- !!! FIXED !!! This is a bug in the Linux-Kernel. Rumours say, that Donald Becker the author of the eepro100 driver, had an argument with Linus Torvalds about the way Kernel-Patches should be applied and therefore doesn't include _ANY_ updates of that driver in new Kernel releases. Download the driver at: http://cesdis.gfsc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html and replace the eepro100.c with the one in your favorite kernel-source. This driver (v1.09l) is a stable release and shouldn't hang your machine. Should you experience the problem, that the driver resets your transmitter on high network load, then I highly recommend the unofficial release v1.09r. This fixes the problem. Note that v1.09r is a development release for the 2.3 Kernel - it works GREAT for me though (using Kernel 2.2.13).
Assigned to dledford
*** Bug 6823 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Actually the driver has another maintainer nowdays, not Donald for 2.2 The problem described (shared IRQ card hang on boot) was fixed in later kernels by HJ Lu