eth0: Interrupt(s) dropped! & woody X problem

[Andres <andres@ccpo.odu.edu>]

	Hi,

	I have Debian potato in a IBM/Thinkpad 380ED and a PCMCIA Linksys
	NE2000 compatible network card. The HD has Potato in one partiton
	and woody in the other.

	The message

	eth0: interrupt(s) dropped!

	is appearing every minute, almost. Things used to work ok but I've
reinstalled Debian a couple of times, so something changed. The output
from  ifconfig and /proc/interrupts are at the end of the mail, if it
helps.  This happens in both woody and potato.


	The partition with woody can't start the X system. After xinit
(xdm seems not to come up) I get messages such as:

         xinit: connection refused (errno 111)
         xinit: no such process (errno 3)

         debconf: unable to initalize frontend Gnome
         debconf: (DISPLAY problem?)


	Any help is appreciated


			Andres


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Here is /proc/interrupts


           CPU0
  0:    8181769          XT-PIC  timer
  1:      38021          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  3:          0          XT-PIC  pcnet_cs
  8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
 12:     556520          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
 13:          1          XT-PIC  fpu
 14:    5563401          XT-PIC  ide0
NMI:          0

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Here is the result from ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:98:88:45:3C
          inet addr:128.82.230.158  Bcast:128.82.231.255
Mask:255.255.254.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:624492 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:3344
          TX packets:104626 errors:118 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:118
          collisions:225 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
          RX packets:90 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:90 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

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