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firephoto
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Could be an IRQ bug on your mobo, try physically moving the network card to another slot if it's a pci card. There might be an IRQ setting in the bios if it's a built in nic. Also check the "plug n play" setting in your bios. I had mine turned on but for whatever reason I can't enable it in the kernel so I turned it off in the bios.
Could be a flakey psu too, either getting old and tired or it's a cheapy that puts out lots of watts at the not so needed voltage. Some Athlon 64 boards take a lot of 12 volt amps, 25+ in some setups. |
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Moloch
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I noticed in your dmesg the line
| Quote: | | r8169: eth0: link up |
Now I've never heard of those cards causing stability problems. They are however pieces of junk. My last problem with one is it would run extremely slow on a 10mb hub with autodetect. I had to manualy specify the speed for it to work right. I know you said the DC can run fine, but IRQ conflicts could be related. I would at least try to move the card around in different slots or try a completely different ethernet card if possible.
Also to add if you look in the kernel config. There are a bunch of different driver options for the rtl8139. You may want to play around there, I have no idea which options would be the best though.
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solarium_rider
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| nxsty wrote: | | Update your kernel to ck9! Ck8 has a bug that can cause crashes. |
I didn't bother w/ a upgrade right away, since 2.5.8.1-ck7 was crashing on me too.
The 2.6.8.1-ck9 kernel seems stable thus far...been up for 40 hours. |
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johntramp
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 1:41 am Post subject: |
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ok, well I have been playing around with it a bit. Ended up puling the whole thing apart for a good clean out of all the dust. I then moved the pci cards and the ram sticks to other slots.
I formatted my hda drive and installed knoppix onto a partition and it seemed to be running ok. I managed to write about 15 cd's and internet etc. was fine.
Last night I started installing gentoo again. This time I decided to install stable with reiserfs instead of unstable on reiser4. The kernel is a little older this time too, a 2.6.8 instead of a 2.6.9.
So far I am up to compiling xorg and fluxbox etc. all seems to be well so far, hopefully.. fingers crossed.. it will be good. I will be happy if it doesnt cost me anything, might even go out and get another 512 ram 
ps. Moloch, you say you have had problems with the card? I have 2 cards so I do not know which one you are talking about, the onboard one I used to use was crap, best speeds I ever got were around 4mb/sec. Since then I have gotten a 1000mbit card which has been great. I have my 1000mbit at eth0 tho which I assume is the r8169 so I dont think I have come across the same problems as you have. |
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Moloch
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 2:34 am Post subject: |
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| johntramp wrote: | ok, well I have been playing around with it a bit. Ended up puling the whole thing apart for a good clean out of all the dust. I then moved the pci cards and the ram sticks to other slots.
I formatted my hda drive and installed knoppix onto a partition and it seemed to be running ok. I managed to write about 15 cd's and internet etc. was fine.
Last night I started installing gentoo again. This time I decided to install stable with reiserfs instead of unstable on reiser4. The kernel is a little older this time too, a 2.6.8 instead of a 2.6.9.
So far I am up to compiling xorg and fluxbox etc. all seems to be well so far, hopefully.. fingers crossed.. it will be good. I will be happy if it doesnt cost me anything, might even go out and get another 512 ram
ps. Moloch, you say you have had problems with the card? I have 2 cards so I do not know which one you are talking about, the onboard one I used to use was crap, best speeds I ever got were around 4mb/sec. Since then I have gotten a 1000mbit card which has been great. I have my 1000mbit at eth0 tho which I assume is the r8169 so I dont think I have come across the same problems as you have. |
Oh! crap,  just realized. I saw the r8169 and read that as 8139. The RTL 8139 chipset is crap. You have an 8169, which I know nothing about. Sorry to confuse you there, oh well. At least it seems like you've managed to get things running correctly.
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johntramp
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 2:38 am Post subject: |
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an easy mistake to make  it is still going, looking good. Thanks for all your help... I have no idea what the problem was. All I can do is hope it doesnt come back I suppose |
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Moloch
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 2:48 am Post subject: |
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| johntramp wrote: | | an easy mistake to make it is still going, looking good. Thanks for all your help... I have no idea what the problem was. All I can do is hope it doesnt come back I suppose |
Well problems shouldn't just come back. It would obviously have to be a change that was made. If your like me, you my just do any emerge -u world, install a new kernel. Change something in the BIOS and have no clue what in the hell broke something. If your careful you will be able to spot the troublemaker before things become difficult to track.
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johntramp
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:57 am Post subject: |
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yeah, seems like things are breaking every other day....
one little fright tho, my mouse stopped working before, even tho the keyboard was responding, and also the computer was running slow as, like it was over vnc on a 56k connection  |
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feld
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| Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:03 am Post subject: |
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| Moloch wrote: | | Forever I was having problems with my system crashing when using athcool to set the cool bit for my KT333......... |
gentoo-dev-sources-r7 has Make CPU Idle Calls When Idle under PowerManagement -> APM. Maybe that works better? I dunno im gonna test here........
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