System freezes randomly when online with dsl Sagem 800 modem

vangelis · 04-03-2006, 11:45 AM

I always felt proud of using my linux box for days and never freezing like the old winME days.
But these days came back. The same problem below is presented at suse 9.3 and after updating to 10.0.

I have a adsl connection with a sagem f@st 800 modem.
I downloaded the latest drivers from sourceforge and installed perfectly following the steps given in the README.

From then occassionally my system freezes when I get online, anything isn't responding, at random times. It could happen either in 6 hours or in 30 mins,
while running Ktorrent or not.

I've found a similar thread8 but couldn't understand much and suse has different configuration.

My dmesg is

Code:

Linux version 2.6.13-15.8-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050901
(prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Tue Feb 7 11:07:24 UTC 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 126960 pages, LIFO batch:31
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.2 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 VIAP4X                                ) @ 0x000f7600
ACPI: RSDT (v001 VIAP4X AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 VIAP4X AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 VIAP4X AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
ACPI: local apic disabled
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 20000000:dec00000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdb2 vga=0x31a selinux=0    resume=/dev/hdb1  spl
ash=silent showopts
bootsplash: silent mode.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 2400.389 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 513624k/524224k available (2029k kernel code, 10008k reserved, 695k data
, 204k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4806.13 BogoMIPS (lpj=9612270)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400
00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 0
0000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00004400 0000000
0 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz stepping 09
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 1746k freed
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found!
 not found!
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0a20)
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb1a0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050408
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] segment is 0
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
TC classifier action (bugs to netdev@vger.kernel.org cc hadi@cyberus.ca)
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: ec000000-edffffff
  PREFETCH window: e0000000-e7ffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1144091247.448:1): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xe0880000, using 10240k, total 131
072k
vesafb: mode is 1280x1024x16, linelength=2560, pages=1
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:e2c0
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 112645 by
tes,<6>...found (1280x1024, 17839 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 158x59
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: PC Speaker
md: md driver 0.90.2 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 3.38
NET: Registered protocol family 2
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
IP route cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
SLPB PCI0 USB0 USB1 USB2 LAN0 AC97 MC97 UAR1
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
    ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ
 11
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:11.1, from 255 to 11
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8233 (rev 00) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: WDC WD205AA-32BAA0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD800JB-00JJA0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 40079088 sectors (20520 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39761/16/63, UDMA(66)
hda: cache flushes not supported
 hda: hda1
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: cache flushes supported
 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-108, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: BENQ DVD-ROM 16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1])
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2000kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (40 C)
hdd: ATAPI 50X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
Attempting manual resume
swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?
ReiserFS: hdb2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hdb2: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hdb2: journal params: device hdb2, size 8192, journal first block 18,
max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hdb2: checking transaction log (hdb2)
ReiserFS: hdb2: Using r5 hash to sort names
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Adding 1036152k swap on /dev/hdb1.  Priority:-1 extents:1
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c036b920(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4095 buckets, 32760 max) - 248 bytes per conntrack
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
    ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ
 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: irq 11, io base 0x0000d800
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
    ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.3[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ
 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: irq 11, io base 0x0000dc00
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
    ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.4[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ
 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.4: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.4: irq 11, io base 0x0000e000
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected VIA P4M266x/P4N266 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe8000000
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ
5
NET: Registered protocol family 23
via_ircc: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker
    ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
    ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ
 11
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x1e400, 00:50:70:42:21:d0, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7849 advertising 05e1 Link 0000.
eagle_usb: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
[eagle-usb] driver V2.3.2 loaded
[eagle-usb] New USB ADSL device detected, waiting for DSP code...
[eagle-usb] Interface 0 accepted.
[eagle-usb] created proc entry at : /proc/driver/eagle-usb/001-002
usbcore: registered new driver eagle-usb
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 2 devices found
eth0: link down
NET: Registered protocol family 17
nvidia: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ
 11
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module  1.0-7676  Fri Jul 29 12:58:                                                                           54 PDT 2005
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14 <tigran@veritas.com>
microcode: CPU0 updated from revision 0x0 to 0x2e, date = 08112004
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver v1.14 unregistered
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
subfs 0.9
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256)

My system is up to date with YOU.
I've also read that many usb dsl modems don't get enough voltage from the usb and is better to have an independed power supplied usb-hub, but I think if it didn't have enough power I wouldn't be able to connect.

I hope the above help to qualify the problem and if I forgot to post anything tell me.

vangelis · 04-10-2006, 04:40 AM

Problem solved.
Not that the whole problem though, I removed the nvidia drivers and now the system doesn't
freeze at all, probably some conflict in the kernel, only that the desktop really sluggish if I open more that 2 medium load applications.
I'll give it a try installing manually the latest drivers and not from YOU.

Ofcourse if it works I'll give some feedback.

vangelis · 04-13-2006, 05:26 AM

Ok this is the final post the problem solved finally and it wasn't software actually.
I had a 300w power supply and I replaced it with a 400w. I thought that before but I installed a usb hub with external power supply and not from the usb port just because I've read in some posts that the dsl modems require a lot of electric power.

I found out that in linux I follow different steps of qualifying a problem that from what I would do in a windows pc.