Hi,

I'm running a few Peg2's and noticed that the machines with extra PCI-card lock much more often then the one's without.

Now I put a SBlive into a former stable Peg, and even MorphOS 2.2 suddenly locks... mostly on network activity. I didn't even have a driver for this card installed. ( I confirmed this behavior by removing the card.)
My second "locking Peg" uses linux and a USB2.0 card,so I suspect, there's something wrong with HAL in IRQ-Handling.

It might be also neccessary to mention, that I allways have both NIC wired to a switch and I use the Gigabit for LAN-traffic ..

Any hint to get this fixed ?

What extra card? Or is it an extra slot? Just curious...

Hi,
maybe I didn't get your question right, but:

It's quite normal PC-hardware, which I plug into the PCI slots.

The SBlive worked fine in a PC and so did the USB2.0 card, which is based on a NEC-Chipset.

Linux does know the USBcard and so it has a driver for it.
But the MorphOS doesn't even have a driver, that's why I suspect some problems with unhandled IRQs.

A card without a driver that is generating interrupts is probably technically broken..

Without attaching an interrupt handler, an unhandled IRQ will just fall back to the default handler which is to acknowledge it and pass back.

As for the NEC USB driver, MorphOS 2.2 should support it just fine..

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Matt Sealey