internet problem

[Michael Havens]

hey... my dad is offering me a modem/router for testing. before I go over
there I need to ask if a modem/router can be used as only a router.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you mean the 'BUG: soft lockup- CPU#0 stuck for 24s! [Xorg: 1465]'?
> This seems to be the only computer this happens with.
> I did a search
> <https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=ddc&hsimp=yhs-linuxmint&type=__alt__ddc_linuxmint_com&p=BUG%3A+soft+lockup-+CPU%230+stuck+for+24s!>
> for the BUG.... and happened upon this
> <http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/70377/bug-soft-lockup-cpu-stuck-for-x-seconds>
> .
> {
> I googled around and by adding clocksource=jiffies to my kernel i fixed
> it. Instead of jiffies you could also try "pit".
> There are also reports of disabling C-states in the BIOS
> <http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127395>.
> }
>
> If I follow these instructions do they mean adding it to the boot options
> or recompiling the kernel.
>
> If you read the page it states, 'The cause was the hosts network driver
> (realtek)...'
>
> Would this be related to the problem I'm having with the router? Maybe the
> router went belly-up.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. <
> mailing-lists at phoenixinternet.net> wrote:
>
>>  Is it only this one computer with the problem, or is it all devices on
>> the network? Also, does your computer have more than one network card? When
>> you moved it, did you use the same port on the router and on the computer?
>>
>> Gilbert
>>
>>
>> On 10/16/2014 12:26 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>
>> Okay... this scares me! I can login to the GUI, I backed up some new
>> stuff. Thenwent to a tty.... no problem with that. I then logged out and
>> went to the login screen and hit cntrl-alt-f1. everything blanked out. then
>> I tried to go back to the GUI but it won't. I'm thinking the computer is
>> screwed up.
>> Comments? Advice?
>>  :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>   well this is interesting.... I reboot the machine and at the login
>>> screen went to tty1 to check if it got an ip address. Well, it wouldn't
>>> type. Then a message appeared saying:
>>>
>>>    BUG: soft lockup- CPU#0 stuck for 24s! [Xorg: 1465]
>>>
>>>  and every now and then it would say that again. sometimes it would say:
>>>
>>>      BUG: soft lockup- CPU#0 stuck for 24s! [Kworker/0:2.68]
>>>
>>>  actually I think the decimal is just a character that isn't showing up
>>> fully because at another line that appeared the decimalwas like a dot
>>> towards the top of the line and there were lots of characters that weren't
>>> all there.
>>>
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>  n Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  sorry.... I had to go to work...... now back to the problem!
>>>> unfortunately everyone is in bed but me. is there a way to get the router
>>>> to give ip addresses without rebooting? the computer isn't the fastest to
>>>> boot (it was a vista machine). WHile I was at work I was told to check that
>>>> the cable didn't go bad so whe I got home tonight I tried another cable
>>>> praying that was the problem. Unfortunately not!
>>>>  Oh.... I think you guys misunderstood.... I was saying 'got it' to
>>>> Gilbert (the message before my last one.
>>>>
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>
>>>
>>
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