Re: 2.4.29, e100 and a WOL packet causes keventd going mad

Hi,

I experience the same problems as reported by Michael Gernoth when sending a WOL-packet to computer with a e100 NIC which is already powered on.

In my case, it's running kernel 2.6.8.1 and the NIC is identified by lspci as:
0000:02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
or numerically:
0000:02:08.0 0200: 8086:1050 (rev 02)

The symptoms is that kacpid starts using all the CPU time it can, a shutdown takes 5 - 10 minutes after I've done this (in contrast to 20 - 30 seconds when the machine is healthy).

Also, if I do a "shutdown -h" on the machine after sending a WOL packet when it's already powered up, it will shutdown and immediately start up again instead of powering off.

So, any suggestions on how to fix it?

Regards,
David

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