On 10/21/07, Firas Kraiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nicolas Letellier wrote: > > Firas Kraiem a icrit : > >> > >> Salut ;) > >> > >> I have the very same problem on my laptop (running 4.2) and I've > >> discovered that the freezings stop if I'm not using the built-in NIC > >> (Realtek Gigabit 8169) but use an USB wifi adapter instead. If you also > >> have a Realtek, maybe it could be due to a bug in the re driver ? > >> > >> Firas > >> > > Are you sure about what you are saying ? > > I have already a laptop with this NIC and I have this problem; > > > > It means that there is a bug with gigabit realtek 8169 ? > > > > Nicolas > > > > > > That's what I saw on mine, anyway. Try to boot it without using using > the NIC (i.e. delete /etc/hostname.re0) and see if the freezes stop. > > Firas >
I see the re(4) hanging my machine problem too. One more data point: cnst@ found out that having lots of multicast traffic on you local net (Mac OS X machines, IPv6,...) greatly increases the probability of such hangs happening.
