Unexpected IO-APIC

I am running into some problems with my IBM x365 and quad port ethernet
cards.

The messages log tells me that the card/driver is not raising an interrupt
(IRQ 32 in this case, but I presume that is laregely irrelavent)... looking
further I found a message asking me to email you.

I thought the ethernet problem could be related to ACPI but am not armed
with enough knowledge to know for sure.  I tried adding pci=noacpi to the
grub kernel line...I also seperatly tried acpi=off.

THe kernel appeared not to understand the noacpi option and seemed to ignore
the acpi.

THe version of the kernel is 2.4.9-44 and it can not be upgraded for various
reasons.

The message in the log is:

IO APIC #14.......
.... regieter #00: 0E000000
.......    : physical APIC id: 0E
.... register #01: 00230011
.......     : max redirection entries: 0023
WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail
         to [email protected]



As FYI the affect I am seeing is that I can ping port1 of the ethernet quad
card, port 2 is slow port 3 is almost unresponsive etc. etc.