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Old 10-15-2007, 02:40 PM   #1
kenrich
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eth0 and broadband issues, slack 9.1


I've been spoiled over the years...I install a hard drive it works, a new
mouse it works, etc. etc. etc. Now I have a problem and I'm not sure what
I'm even looking for...

Every once in a while, maybe once a week or once every two weeks the eth0
stops working....in the logs and dmesg I get:

[[from dmesg and log files]]

eth0: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x0001.
eth0: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x0001.
eth0: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x0001.


I taken eth0 down and brought up again and still the same problem. I
init 6 several times and still the same issue. It seems, and I stress **it
seems** the only thing that works is a cold reboot...as if something is
struck in mem..

If I run ifconfig, errors in the RX section keep climbing, there are,
however, no errors registered in the TX section.

At any rate, I noticed that the eth0 and mouse share the same IRQ, is this
normal???

Any ideas on what I might look for the next time or now to prevent the
problem???


[[from ifconfig]]

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:29:5E:FB:48
inet addr:10.2.114.187 Bcast:10.2.114.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:7985 (7.7 Kb) TX bytes:878 (878.0 b)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x8000

[[from dmesg]]

PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:10.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.2
eth0: SMC1211TX EZCard 10/100 (RealTek RTL8139) at 0xd1008000, 00:e0:29:5e:fb:48, IRQ 9
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139B'

[[later in dmesg]]

PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:10.0
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1020, IRQ 9
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x1241/0x1111) is not claimed by any active driver.
usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
input0: USB HIDBP Mouse 1241:1111 on usb1:2.0
usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver

Before I forget, where I work, broadband is provided...I just have a cat 5 plug from the computer to the wall....

ken
 
Old 10-16-2007, 07:30 AM   #2
Pearlseattle
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Have a Realtek 8139 and it's working great (until now).
Is acpi switched on? But I don't think you have a problem with IRQ sharing. My "cat /proc/interrupts" looks like this:
Code:
localhost mnt # cat /proc/interrupts 
           CPU0       
  0:     858104   IO-APIC-edge      timer
  1:      20566   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
  8:          2   IO-APIC-edge      rtc
  9:        722   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
 12:      79487   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
 14:         44   IO-APIC-edge      ide0
 16:     389915   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb5, nvidia
 17:       5918   IO-APIC-fasteoi   Intel ICH6
 18:          1   IO-APIC-fasteoi   yenta
 19:         18   IO-APIC-fasteoi   Intel ICH6 Modem
 20:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb4
 21:      17474   IO-APIC-fasteoi   libata, uhci_hcd:usb3
 22:    1119301   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2, sdhci:slot0, sdhci:slot1, sdhci:slot2
 23:      84423   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ipw2200
NMI:          0 
LOC:     370944 
ERR:          0
MIS:          0
I personally think you've got a problem with the hardware itself or with the drivers of the network card. Did you ever upgraded your kernel? Had a lot of problems with the ipw2200 wireless drivers and they disappeared after I started using a kernel > 2.18 (or something similar).
 
  


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