i586 Kernel 2.6 Hangs

[Paul Howarth]

J.T. Moore wrote:
> Anyone else out there having problems with the 2.6 kernel on an i586? 
> The problem i run into is that my system will hang after having been in 
> use for several minutes when running the 2.6 kernel. I've run into this 
> problem with the 2.6 kernels for FC2, kernels from source (kernel.org), 
> and most recently the FC3 cd install/upgrade (I was able to upgrade 
> although I had to manually freshen the rpms,resolve the depencies, and 
> force udev to install since other stuff requires it and it requires the 
> 2.6 kernel.
> 
> My system is pretty antiqutaed but it runs flawlessly on the 2.4 kernel 
> (currently 2.4.26 custom):
> 
> CPU: K6/2 500 Mhz
> Motherboard: FIC VA-503+
> Memory: 512 MB PC-100 sdram
> Nics: 3com 3c509 (three of them)
> Video: ATI Radeon 7000
> Hard Drive Type: IDE (two of them)
> CDROM: IDE DVD-ROM

I have a K6/2 200MHz on an Asus TX97-E motherboard running with no problems on 
2.6 kernels.

Paul.