[ltp] 600x hang with network - was: hardy kernel 2.6.24-8 occasional system hangs, t60p

[Phil Shotton]

I have been running an old 600x with a plug-in PCMCIA ethernet card - 
sorry, don't recall the make right now and the machine's at home - with 
a similar problem.
Using it with unsecured wireless network it would hang occasionally, 
particularly when making heavy use of the network. With an encrypted 
network it hangs as soon as the network key is entered. Nothing at all 
in /var/log/messages, and reproducible every time.

O/S is Gutsy with all updates (as of last week) applied.

Has anyone seen this before?

Cheers
Phil

Brad Langhorst wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:12 -0500, Brad Langhorst wrote:
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>> On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 03:06 +0100, OndXXej BalXXXX wrote:
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>>> In gmane.linux.hardware.thinkpad, you wrote:
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>>>> I wonder if anyone else is testing hardy and seeing problems with
>>>> random hangs sometimes on a t60p.
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>>> Are you using 2.6.24.x series ?
>>> Please look into your system logs and search for something like "Uhhh. NMI
>>> received for unknown reason a1 on cpu0". I suspecting some kind of regression in
>>> e1000 gigabit ethernet (are you connected to the wired network when these
>>> freezes occurs ?)
>>>       
>> yep 2.6.24-8
>> I am using the wired network when this happens, i think always.
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> I think you're right. I've been using a pcmcia ethernet card 
> for the last 1 day, 18:28. with no hangs.
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> I think that's enough time to say for sure that the problem is with the
> e1000 driver.
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> I've filed this bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/196127
> in case anybody else has something to add.
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> brad
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