Re: strange problem with LX
* Luke Shulenburger (sluke@bartender.mit.edu) wrote:
> The scrolling rate is about 1 line per second. /proc/interrupts showed
> the network card (DE500-BA) as having over 144 million interrupts. So, I
> shut down the interface and removed the kernel module. voila, vmstat is
> now reporting on the order of 1050 interrupts per second. So, just to see
> what would happen, I reloaded the kernel module and fired back up the
> interface. Result: the computer is working perfectly now. Thank you very
> much. Now I have this question: every time I reboot this happens, is
> there something to look for that might be causing problems with the
> ethernet kernel module? Or is this likely not a kernel problem at all?
> (hardware?)
Whether it is a kernel or a hardware problem is difficult to tell; I'd do
an ifconfig -a to see if there is any data actually being shifted; if there
is then perhaps your machine is squirting oodles of junk onto the network for
some odd reason; tcpdump should help see what is going on.
Failing that I suggest you see if you can get a newer version of the driver
for the card.
Dave
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