Hi, i've been running a gentoo linux (kernel version 2.6.11, with gentoo extentions: hardened r15), and i've been having some problems with the NICs.
The system run almost fine, but not all the time. From time to time I got a kernel panic. The strange things is that the e100 card drops a lot of packets and detects lots of collisions, even though its connected only to an adsl modem. I had two e100 on the system, one conected to the private lan and the other to the Internet. I switched the private NIC because it could not handle the load, when traffic got a bit high (60 Mbps) the NIC would simply stop working. Now I have this 3com NIC in place, ifconfig shows a bit of overruns, but at least the NIC is able to deal with the load. Now I got this kind of message, not to oftem: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 The NIC is on IRQ 10, 'cat /proc/interrupts' shows 139 errors in about 1 and a half day of uptime. I dont know if its a problem of compatibility between the linux kernel/drivers and the hardware, of if its something I did wrong trying to put this security extensions on the kernel. The problem is that I cant find enough info on why the system crashes randomly and why the NICs are acting this way. I attached the dmesg of the system. Thanks in advance, Maicon
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