Transfering a fair amount of data over the NIC will eventually lock up the system. For example transferring a couple of gigabytes over NFS or running aMule for a while. Judging from the linked thread the Realtek 8169 driver does seem to be the problem. Another guy switched NIC's and everything was fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Pull a bunch of files over NFS OR 2.Run aMule for a while, sharing and downloading Actual Results: Machine locks up, freezes. Expected Results: Keep on running :) Here's a couple of Googled links, might be helpful: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0403.3/1053.html http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3396/10571 I'm having problems with gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r11 too but I'm not sure if it's also 8169-related. Here's the thread anyway: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=204679&highlight=8169 emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.4.26-gentoo-r5) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.1/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dga directfb divx4linux dvd dvdr encode esd evo fbcon flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber jack joystick jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww live mad maildir mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls nptl offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png pnp ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang slp spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype unicode usb videos x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
Looked at the changelog for vanilla-sources-2.4.27 @ www.kernel.org. Seems like the kernel has been updated to use a newer driver used in 2.6.x kernels. I'll give vanilla-sources a try.
Yessiree, 2.4.27 does it for me!
Closing as FIXED - thanks!
