No real help here, but I also experienced very erratic functionality of this
NIC on an IBM ThinkPad running RedHat 6.1. My feeling is that the driver is
not quite up to par.
Don
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 8:04 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Fabio Favata
> Subject: [expert] eth0 dropping interrupts...
>
>
>
> 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
>
