[ale] kernel stack dump, server locks up NIC

[James P. Kinney III]

I have a server that ran through tests OK. But now it seems to croak on
a NIC driver (3com)

Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: HostError <1>Unable to handle kernel
paging request at virtual address 0b80f068
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel:  printing eip:
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: e290115a
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: *pde = 00000000
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: Oops: 0000
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: CPU:    0
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: EIP:    0010:[<e290115a>]    Tainted: P 
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: EFLAGS: 00210282
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: 
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: EIP is at  (2.4.18-5custom)
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: eax: 0b80f000   ebx: d8011ee4   ecx:
0b80f000   edx: 00000006
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: esi: d8011ee4   edi: c169056c   ebp:
c1690000   esp: c1691f34
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: Process keventd (pid: 2,
stackpage=c1691000)
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: Stack: 00001ee4 00084ac1 00020004
d8011ee4 d8011ee4 d8011ee4 c169056c e29004d5 
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel:        0b80f000 e290048c 00000010
00200202 c02cfa00 c1691f78 c1691f78 c01189f9 
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel:        d8011ee4 c02cfa00 c02cfa00
00000000 00000000 c01206c1 c02b2a00 0000000a 
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: Call Trace: [<e29004d5>]  
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: [<e290048c>]  
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: [<c01189f9>]  
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: [<c01206c1>]  
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: [<c01205a0>]  
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: [<c0105000>]  
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: [<c0107136>]  
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: [<c01205a0>]  
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: 
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: 
Aug  8 11:22:30 needle kernel: Code: 8b 58 68 66 c7 44 24 0e 00 00 66 c7
44 24 0c 00 00 c6 44 24 
Aug  8 11:26:41 needle kernel:  <6>NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed
out
Aug  8 11:26:42 needle kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
Aug  8 11:27:50 needle last message repeated 10 times
Aug  8 11:27:58 needle last message repeated 5 times

The "eth1 :transmit error" repeats until the box gets rebooted. 
This is a source driver supplied by 3com. Is this a sign of a crap
driver? It has happened twice now. It is  the second card. 


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