Hi Wolfgang

You're right. The problem is related to this. I've solved it by
disabling the Geode mfgpt-timer. So I can still use CONFIG_MGEODE_LX.
You should find the right option by greping for MFGPT or GPT in the kernel 
config.

Greetings
Thorsten

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:56:11 +0100
wof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello Thorsten,
> what is your selected CPU type for you kernel?
> I had the same problem when I select CONFIG_MGEODE_LX. The problem disapear 
> after change CPU-type to MK6.
> For me it had looked like that the optimization for the GEODE LX results in 
> an 
> interrupt conflict with the lan1641 for two ports.
> 
> regards
> 
> Wolfgang
> 
> On Tuesday 04 November 2008 17:11:57 Thorsten Mühlfelder wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I've got an net5501 wit a lan1641. I'm running a 2.6.27.4 kernel on it,
> > but 2 ethernet ports don't work. I've tried to start a dhcpcd on all ports.
> > This is the message from syslog:
> > Nov  4 16:54:41 (none) dhcpcd[3335]: eth3: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or
> > resource busy Nov  4 16:56:15 (none) dhcpcd[3336]: eth1: ioctl
> > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
> >
> > eth1 and eth3 are on the lan1641 PCI board and they get no interrupt:
> > root[~]# cat /proc/interrupts
> >            CPU0
> >   0:         23    XT-PIC-XT        timer
> >   2:          0    XT-PIC-XT        cascade
> >   3:       2006    XT-PIC-XT        serial
> >   4:        614    XT-PIC-XT        serial
> >   5:          0    XT-PIC-XT        eth5
> >   7:     135161    XT-PIC-XT        mfgpt-timer
> >   8:          0    XT-PIC-XT        rtc0
> >   9:          0    XT-PIC-XT        eth6
> >  10:        947    XT-PIC-XT        eth0, eth2
> >  11:          0    XT-PIC-XT        eth4
> >  12:          0    XT-PIC-XT        eth7
> >  14:      24580    XT-PIC-XT        ide0
> >  15:          0    XT-PIC-XT        ide1
> > NMI:          0   Non-maskable interrupts
> > LOC:          0   Local timer interrupts
> > SPU:          0   Spurious interrupts
> > ERR:          0
> > MIS:          0
> >
> > But they are present in /sys/class/net/
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