Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:12:02 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2-STABLE keeps locking up Message-ID: <200101160012.f0G0C2R82581@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> of "Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:21:36 CST." <20010115092136.A32717@home.com>
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"Victor R. Cardona" writes: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 06:31:13AM -0800, Glendon M. Gross wrote: > > I'll bet there's an IRQ conflict between the ethernet card and some > > other device in the system. > > Sometimes I have been able to fix these kinds of problems by recompiling > > the kernel without support for devices that I don't need. > > Just my 2 cents. > > Thanks. I don't know what else I can strip out of the kernel config > though. As it is, I took out just about everything. Then maybe the problem isn't in FreeBSD. My computer had to be rebuilt last month after a lightning strike. Went from an Asus P6NP5 and PPro-166/512k to an Asus A7V and 800MHz AMD Thunderbird Athlon. Never had so much trouble with a MB that assigned my Symbios SCSI card to IRQ 3... But IRQ's were not the final solution to the system locking up under heavy SCSI, ATA-100, and ethernet activity (FreeBSD, of course). "BIOS Defaults" was the cure, in addition to changing a performance setting from "Optimal" to "Standard" (think "Optimal" was the default). Manual said "Optimal" was PCI 2.2. My PCI cards are years old so this is probably a bad setting for me. It works now and I'm not interested enough to go back and see if "Optimal" works. The biggest change I saw was "PCI Master Read Caching" and "Delayed Transaction" were disabled while the PC shop apparently enabled them. Way back in the -questions archive you may find where my P6NP5 was having floppy problems. As in, "Doesn't work in FreeBSD but does in DOS and NT4SP3." That too was cured with "BIOS Defaults" altho I manually went back and restored everything the same afterwards. Apparently there are hidden items that can be cleared to sane default, but set only with a special utility. Don't know how they got set un-sane in the first place. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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