Bug#403183: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686: Netgear FA410TX PCMCIA network card (NE2000 compatible) IRQ problems

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:15:26AM +0100, Olivier Berger wrote:
> Subject: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686: Netgear FA410TX PCMCIA network card (NE2000 compatible) IRQ problems
> Package: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686
> Version: 2.6.18-7
> Severity: normal
> 
> I've got a laptop on which I use a PCMCIA network card (Netgear
> FA410TX), which has a ne2000 driver.
> 
> When laptop is booted with card in, there are watchdog events and
> network connectivity is dropped and resume several times a minute
> (reports in enclosed dmesg show these watchdog events).
> 
> If the card is ejected and then put back in, I get strange backtrace
> dumps after a "IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ" message (see dmesg
> also), but after that, the card works fine, without dropping/resuming
> the network connectivity.
> 
> This tends to be quite annoying, and didn't occur in 2.6.8 AFAI recall.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

Cheers,
        Moritz