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Question: Machine Reboots on high volume network traffic 

Forum: PCMCIA Installation and Configuration Issues
Date: 1999, Nov 29
From: Jason M. Sullivan Jason0x21

Basic Information

  • Texas Instruments TravelMate 5200
  • RedHat 6.0
  • Kernel Version 2.2.5-22 (i586)
  • PCMCIA Version 3.0.9
  • D-Link DE-660

So I got the PCMCIA package and cardmgr running (I needed to turn off IO probing. It took a while to figure it out because the message that the pcmcia core was loading correctly didn't make it into the messages log before the cardmgr caused the machine to hang with the io probe). Now that I have the core and cardmgr running, I have a new problem.

I can pop my Network card in, the core recongnizes it, I get two high beeps, and the network starts up fine. I can rlogin, mount, and open an ftp session. I can probably start a bunch of other things, but when the traffic starts getting heavy (like when I start to transfer a file: 'cat' in rlogin, 'get' in ftp, or simply 'cp' from a mounted directory), the machine immediately reboots. No warning, no messages.

I tried a few options (fast_pci, and cmd_time), to no avail. The kernel did have some strange messages on insertion and removal, summarized below.. 

Nov 22 22:03:00 billbee kernel: eth0: NE2000 Compatible: port 0x1000, irq 10, hw_addr 00:80:C8:8C:0A:E5
Nov 22 22:03:00 billbee cardmgr[370]: executing: './network start eth0'
Nov 22 22:03:01 billbee inet: inetd startup succeeded
Nov 22 22:03:01 billbee kernel: Hw. address read/write mismap 3
Nov 22 22:03:01 billbee kernel: Hw. address read/write mismap 5
Nov 22 22:03:01 billbee nfs: Starting NFS services:  succeeded
Nov 22 22:03:01 billbee cardmgr[370]: + SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
...
Nov 22 22:03:57 billbee kernel: eth0: unexpected TX-done interrupt, lasttx=0.
Nov 22 22:03:57 billbee last message repeated 3 times
Nov 22 22:03:57 billbee kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status 0x20
Nov 22 22:03:58 billbee kernel: eth0: interrupt from stopped card
Nov 22 22:03:58 billbee cardmgr[370]: shutting down socket 1
Nov 22 22:03:58 billbee cardmgr[370]: executing: './network stop eth0'
Nov 22 22:03:58 billbee kernel: alloc_skb called nonatomically from interrupt c016aebd
Nov 22 22:03:58 billbee kernel: alloc_skb called nonatomically from interrupt c01509b9
Nov 22 22:03:58 billbee cardmgr[370]: executing: 'rmmod pcnet_cs'
Nov 22 22:03:58 billbee cardmgr[370]: executing: 'rmmod 8390'
Any clues out there? Thanks in advance.

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1. Disabling IO probing is a bad idea by David Hinds, 1999, Nov 29
(_ More: Working now, but one last question by Jason M. Sullivan, 1999, Nov 30
(_ Clean resource allocation is hard by David Hinds, 1999, Nov 30
(_ More: Time for me to talk to TI/Acer by Jason M. Sullivan, 1999, Nov 30

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