> Bob, > > Thank you for your help with my problem. I had changed modprobe.conf to > read 'alias eth0 r1000' when I last reported no success, so that hasn't > resolved the problem. I rmmod'ed the r8169 driver, but this seems to > remove it only until the system is rebooted. dmesg returns some > interesting output that may point us to the problem, but I am not able > to understand it fully. The pertinent part is as follows: > > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0f.0 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:07.5 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0d.2 > eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169S/8110S'. > eth0: r10001.04, the Linux device driver for Realtek Ethernet > Controllers at 0xc800, 00:40:f4:ee:2f:ff, IRQ 11 > BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! > <c043dad5> softlockup_tick+0x90/0xa1 <c0423d50> > update_process_times+0x35/0x57 > <c0406134> timer_interrupt+0x60/0x98 <c043db72> > handle_IRQ_event+0x23/0x4c > <c043dc17> __do_IRQ+0x7c/0xd1 <c0405035> do_IRQ+0x63/0x80 > ======================= > <c04036f2> common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 <c040d556> delay_tsc+0xb/0x13 > <c04d8125> __delay+0x9/0xa <e88160bd> R1000_WRITE_GMII_REG+0x36/0x3c > [r1000] > <e8817208> r1000_init_one+0x69f/0x892 [r1000] <c053d851> > __driver_attach+0x0/0x8b > <c04dfc3b> pci_device_probe+0x36/0x57 <c053d78d> > driver_probe_device+0x45/0x9a > <c0419231> __cond_resched+0x17/0x28 <c053d8b4> __driver_attach+0x63/0x8b > <c053d21f> bus_for_each_dev+0x37/0x59 <c053d6ee> driver_attach+0x16/0x18 > <c053d851> __driver_attach+0x0/0x8b <c053cf25> bus_add_driver+0x6f/0x10d > <c04dfddf> __pci_register_driver+0x5b/0x7d <c0433a69> > sys_init_module+0x134f/0x14b2 > <c0423c25> __mod_timer+0x0/0x94 <c0402cb3> syscall_call+0x7/0xb > Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter > Driver version:1.04 > Released date:2006/07/07 > Link Status:Linked > Link Speed:1000Mbps > Duplex mode:Full-Duplex > I/O Base:0xC800(I/O port) > IRQ:11 > > I am trying to research possible causes of the 'BUG: soft lockup > detected on CPU#0!', but the lines here are causing me nightmares! on > the other hand, there is much more recognition of the card in the final > lines than before the switch to the r1000 driver. If you need the rest > of the dmesg output, please let me know. I tried to parsse it down to > what I thought to be the essentials. > > Thanks again for your help! > > Steven > Steven, This will need someone with better hardware skills than I have. I can't offer a solution. But can you please send me your entire dmesg output anyhow? I only want to see the dmesg stuff if it is simple and easy for you to do that. I don't mean to cause you hours of manual typing -- if that is the case, don't bother sending it to me. It's too much work. In my mind, plugging in a usb flash drive is pretty simple. You write the dmesg output to a text file and put the text file on the flash drive. Then walk it to an internet enabled machine and email it to me. dmesg > dmesg.txt Also I'd like to see your ifconfig output which has to be done as root: ifconfig > ifconfig.txt Thanks Bob Cochran
