Alan Stern wrote:
I'm not an expert on how interrupt management works, but a lot of people have experienced problems with it when using ACPI. You could try booting with "pci=noacpi acpi=noirq" or "acpi=off" on the boot command line to disable it.I checked the thread. As far as I can see, the problem described is about the ethernet device causing spurious interrupts in the USB IRQ. However,
You also might find some interesting reading here:
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2243
there are two things that are not explained from reading the thread:
* How can an Ethernet card in my home machine, without any cable connected to it, make the system generate a spurious interrupt at IRQ 5,
at the exact moment in which the memory stick is plugged?
* Why is the problem temporarily fixed when I rmmod ehci-hcd?
I will try the boot options over the weekend, but since I only have Internet access at work, my answer will arrive on Monday.
Thanks. Alex Villacis Lasso
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