Bug 24815 – nforce-net-1.0.0261 (and -r1) is buggy

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2003-07-19 09:28:14 UTC]

For a while now I've been seeing strange freezes on my machine.  Everything
stops, both X and console, then after a few seconds it continues.  Some
experimentation reveals that the freezes don't occur when the machine is
receiving a constant stream of ping data, in fact a freeze can be interrupted
immediately by initiating a ping from another machine.

The problem occurs with nforce-net-1.0.0261 but does not occur with
nforce-net-1.0.0256.  It seems clear that 261 has some trouble getting stuck
while servicing interrupts.  I'd suggest that, unless 261 fixes some specific
problems for Gentoo users, it should be package.masked so that 256 is the
default for now.

This is an ASUS A7N266-VM with gaming-sources-2.4.20-r5

[Comment 1 Stu 2003-07-27 01:33:02 UTC]

I have the same motherboard and can confirm exactly the same behaviour.  The only difference to Aron is I am using gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5 kernel.

[Comment 2 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2003-07-29 13:57:52 UTC]

Since I have corroboration of this problem, I've gone ahead and package.mask'd =nforce-net-1.0.0261*

Guess we'll see if the next nforce-net driver fixes this problem

[Comment 3 Keith Constable 2003-08-15 17:37:02 UTC]

I experience this bug only when APIC support is active and enabled in the kernel.

MSI K7N420 Pro (nForce-1) with gaming-sources-2.4.20-r5

[Comment 4 Chris Smith 2003-09-11 05:35:06 UTC]

I won't reopen this bug, but I experiance said behaviour with the 256 drivers. I've 
been using the 0248 drivers. 
 
Any ideas other than constantly pinging my machine? 

[Comment 5 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2003-09-11 16:00:21 UTC]

Certainly using the older driver is better than pinging.  Hopefully a new nforce-net driver will come along eventually that fixes the problem.

[Comment 6 Jesse Adelman 2004-09-10 15:44:18 UTC]

Hmm... been using the newest ebuild (1.0.0261-r2) without a hiccup for 1 month on two machines. Can we get rid of the hard mask in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, please? Unless someone else has a horror story... Thanks!