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Re: Kernel panic



On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Iftach Silberman wrote:

> Hello all.
> 
> I installed Slackware 3.4 (2.0.30) on a PII machine with a PCI NE2000
> compatible. I compiled the NE2000 support in the kernel. The computer
> worked great until last week, when I started hanging with "Kernel Panic:
> skput:over: XXXXXXX" messages. Someone told me it was related to the NIC
> card, someone else told me either the disk is bad or the kernel is fucked
> up. I replaced the disk. I compiled 2.0.33. I replaced the computer.
> Happend again. I replace the NE2000 card with a 3com card, and so far the
> computer is stable.
> 
> >From what I figured out, when someone uploads files through a slow
> (dialup) connection, the machine hangs after a large file was sent. Does
> anyone have any clue as to what happened here?
> 
> .Iftach
> 

Is the machine a dual boot one ? If yes, run the PnP configuration program
for the NE2000 card again and see what has changed. 

One of the things that do go wrong is flaky swap partitions. Re-create the
swap partition from a rescue floppy, and use the -c flag with mkswap to
scrub it. It is possible that the slow upload causes the swap space to
reach a bad place in the swap partition, while storing data.

hope this helps,
	Peter