New question about OS hang up.

[Kinggo CHOW]

Hi, Dr Nick,

Thank you very much! I have checked the proc file and know that the netcard is DECchip 
Bus  1, device   4, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 48).
      IRQ 48.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=20.Max Lat=40.
      I/O at 0x200008c00 [0x200008c7f].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x202263000 [0x20226307f].
I plan to recompile the kernel. Do you have any suggestion?
Thanks for your kind answer.

Kinggo



> Hi,
> 
> > Now the new problem comes:
> > When system (linux-redhat-alpha-7.2)booting, the os always hangs up at 
> > the two procedure:
> > 1.booting eth0
> > or
> > 1.mounting other file system.
> 
> 
>  From my experience, you are probably not using the correct driver for 
> your network card - in my case I couldn't get an Etherlink III card 
> working properly and it would hang the machine on start-up every time. 
> I ended up replacing it with an Intel PCI 10/100 and it worked. The 
> Etherlink III was ISA and I tried the Intel before I started messing 
> around with the settings on the Etherlink card. Someone on the list may 
> have good information for the settings on this. I know it wasn't just 
> that Etherlink card as I tried five of them, they're a dime a dozen 
> around here, before I convinced someone to let me have a PCI card to 
> try.
> 
> If you are using an old tulip card then the tulip drivers may not work 
> for you and you'll have to use the de4x5 drivers instead. Again, this 
> has worked for me.
> 
> Anyway, to get your system to the point where you can do this you'll 
> have to get it to complete booting so here is the way to bypass the 
> hang for eth0.
> 
> When the system is booting, and says 'Type I for interactive startup', 
> hit 'I'. The system will now prompt you for the elements of startup. 
> Say yes until you get to bringing the network up and then say No when 
> asked if you wish to bring up eth0.
> 
> If the other file systems are coming in from NFS then it may be bad 
> network connectivity that is causing a time-out, rather than a strict 
> hang. Try fixing your network card first and see what happens.
> 
> --
> -- Nick Falkner
> -- PhD Student
> -- Distributed and High Performance Computing Group
> -- The University of Adelaide
> 
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