Linux on Alpha PWS Miata network hanging

I'm trying to install Linux on a Digital PWS Alpha Miata. I am
loading from Mandrake 7.1. It installed OK but when I use the
network, it hangs under load.

What happens is ping starts showing 'destination unreachable' after a
few seconds while doing an FTP or using Netscape. The FTP or Netscape
will just hang. Everything else in the OS keeps working. If I do a
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart, it starts working again.

I went to kernel.org and got the 2.4.23 kernel, same thing.

I am using the built-in ethernet (21143) with the tulip.o driver. I
also tried an i82257 board (in one of the PCI-32bit slots) with the
eepro100.o driver, same result.

Other plug-in cards I have are a S3-Trio64 video card (in one of the
PCI-64bit slots) and a Qlogic ISP-1020 SCSI card (in one of the
PCI-32bit slots) for the CDROM. The hard drive is an Segate 10GB IDE,
plugged in as /dev/hda. I'm pretty sure the hardware is OK as I ran
VMS on it for years (except with a SCSI hard drive).

Mike

w m r wrote:
> I'm trying to install Linux on a Digital PWS Alpha Miata. I am
> loading from Mandrake 7.1. It installed OK but when I use the
> network, it hangs under load.
>
> What happens is ping starts showing 'destination unreachable' after a
> few seconds while doing an FTP or using Netscape. The FTP or Netscape
> will just hang. Everything else in the OS keeps working. If I do a
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart, it starts working again.
>
> I went to kernel.org and got the 2.4.23 kernel, same thing.
>
> I am using the built-in ethernet (21143) with the tulip.o driver. I
> also tried an i82257 board (in one of the PCI-32bit slots) with the
> eepro100.o driver, same result.
>
> Other plug-in cards I have are a S3-Trio64 video card (in one of the
> PCI-64bit slots) and a Qlogic ISP-1020 SCSI card (in one of the
> PCI-32bit slots) for the CDROM. The hard drive is an Segate 10GB IDE,
> plugged in as /dev/hda. I'm pretty sure the hardware is OK as I ran
> VMS on it for years (except with a SCSI hard drive).
>
> Mike
Have you noticed any odd resource consumption during these periods? Is
CPU utilization through the roof on any one process, or is a particular
slab cache growing more rapidly that you would normally expect?

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Mike:

There's a known bug in SRM when the onboard ethernet port is set to
"Auto-Negotiate". Try setting it to Twisted-Pair.

TomC

w m r wrote:

> I'm trying to install Linux on a Digital PWS Alpha Miata. I am
> loading from Mandrake 7.1. It installed OK but when I use the
> network, it hangs under load.
>
> What happens is ping starts showing 'destination unreachable' after a
> few seconds while doing an FTP or using Netscape. The FTP or Netscape
> will just hang. Everything else in the OS keeps working. If I do a
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart, it starts working again.
>
> I went to kernel.org and got the 2.4.23 kernel, same thing.
>
> I am using the built-in ethernet (21143) with the tulip.o driver. I
> also tried an i82257 board (in one of the PCI-32bit slots) with the
> eepro100.o driver, same result.
>
> Other plug-in cards I have are a S3-Trio64 video card (in one of the
> PCI-64bit slots) and a Qlogic ISP-1020 SCSI card (in one of the
> PCI-32bit slots) for the CDROM. The hard drive is an Segate 10GB IDE,
> plugged in as /dev/hda. I'm pretty sure the hardware is OK as I ran
> VMS on it for years (except with a SCSI hard drive).
>
> Mike