[vortex] Strange problem with 3c905A

[Ville Herva]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 11:22:02PM -0400, you [Donald Becker] claimed:
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Ville Herva wrote:
> > kernel 2.2.8pre19 + it's stock 3c59x.c, SMP, 3c905A.
> 
> Really 2.2.8?

As I said earlier, 2.2.18pre19. I'm sorry for the confusion.
 
> > eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device?
> 
> Use "noapic" as a boot option.

Ok. If this happens again, I'll switch to that.

> > No heavy network traffic at the time, nor any other load worth mentioning.
> > 
> > "rmmod 3c59x; insmod 3c59x" didn't help, neither did "mii-diag -rR".
> 
> No, it wouldn't.  The problem is the IRQ line, not the driver.

I don't suppose there is any way of resetting the situation other than
reboot, then?

Thanks!


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