Re: status of via velocity in 2.6.9

Hi,

Francois Romieu wrote:

Lenar Lõhmus [off-list ref] :
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the machine just locked up after ifconfig up. With 2.6.9, it doesn't 
lock up, but it doesn't work either (data seems to go to black hole
or sth). But there seem to be some success reports too with this kernel.
   

Can you check if the computer hosts the latest bios from its vendor and
 

At the time 2.6.9 was released it had latest bios.

if booting with "acpi=off" makes a difference ?
 

If I remember correctly - i tried, but no difference.

The content of /proc/interrupts after a known number of TX packets could
give some hint (use ping or such and correlate ifconfig output with
/proc/interrupts).
 

With that I can't help, although the machine is accessible to me, it is 
now 'in production' with 3Com NIC and so I
can't test and play with it anymore. When I get my hands on another 
similar box and it still exhibits
same problems, I'll be back reporting it, and hopefully I have time to 
test suggested things.

Lenar