Under Mandrake 6.1, on a laptop with a PCMCIA NE2000
compatible network card, I get lots and lots of kernel messages
complaining about dropped interrupts, such as like:
kernel: eth0: interrupt(s) dropped!
The card is recognized by the PCMCIA system (see the following
messages when the card is inserted).
cardmgr[336]: initializing socket 0
cardmgr[336]: socket 0: RPTI EP401 Ethernet
cardmgr[336]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk/net/8390.o'
cardmgr[336]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.o'
kernel: eth0: NE2000 Compatible: io 0x300, irq 10, hw_addr 00:40:59:04:43:48
The same card did not generate these problems under RedHat 5.1
(albeit on a different laptop).
Does anybody know what the problem is -- and what the solution
is, more importantly :-)
Thanks, Fabio
