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

[Phil Shotton]

And now I'm back at home I can confirm the wireless card is a DLink Air 
DWL-610.
The 600x is a type 2645-9FG if that makes any difference.

Phil Shotton wrote:
> 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:
>>  
>>> On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 03:06 +0100, OndXXej BalXXXX wrote:
>>>    
>>>> In gmane.linux.hardware.thinkpad, you wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> I wonder if anyone else is testing hardy and seeing problems with
>>>>> random hangs sometimes on a t60p.
>>>>>         
>>>> 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.
>>>     
>>
>> I think you're right. I've been using a pcmcia ethernet card for the 
>> last 1 day, 18:28. with no hangs.
>>
>> I think that's enough time to say for sure that the problem is with the
>> e1000 driver.
>>
>> I've filed this bug
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/196127
>> in case anybody else has something to add.
>>
>> brad
>>
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