Patrick writes:
> My 3c900 card doesn't work when I run 2.1.123 with SMP enabled. It works
> fine under 2.1.122 with SMP. When I boot 2.1.123, I get these error
> messages on my console and in syslog right as the boot sequence finishes:
>
> eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e601.
> eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device?
>
> Generally a few packets get through (enough for an ARP and its response)
> before the card goes unresponsive.
>
> I'm pretty sure it's not the 3c59x driver, since that didn't change at all
> from 2.1.122 to 2.1.123. Anyone have any ideas (or better, patches) for
> this?
I'm not smart enough to know why this is, but I got around it on my
SMP PII-233 machine by moving my 3c905 card to a different PCI slot.
This caused it to assign a different IRQ, and the problem seemed to go away
(not sure if this resulted in any other problems -- havn't noticed any
though).
Hope this helps.
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