Re: eepro100 constant issues

Donald Becker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.eepro100.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Greg Milewski wrote:

> this nic was working almost flawlessly from aug2k1 until about may2k2 when
> the box was taken down for these errors.  at most, resource errors arose
> during that time.
...
> this is what happened just now w/ the latest drivers:
> eth0: IRQ 5 is physically blocked! (6050)Failing back to low-rate polling.
> eth0: IRQ 5 is physically blocked! (6050)Failing back to low-rate polling.

This is a real error, unrelated to the driver.

The driver's timer-based monitoring has detected that the interrupt line
isn't working.  So it switches to "emergency mode", where the time is
used to process a few packets.  This mode is only intended for fixing
the problem over a network connection, not continued operation.

Is there any other device on IRQ5?
Blocked interrupt lines with SMP kernels used to a problem with the 2.2
kernels, but was supposedly fixed long ago.

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