Re: eth0: dropped interrupts!!! (Solved)

[Benjamin Fritzsche <BFritzsche@gmx.de>]

On Wednesday 12 February 2003 14:35, Benjamin Fritzsche wrote:
> On Thursday 13 February 2003 14:27, Neal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 07:49, Benjamin Fritzsche wrote:
> > > Hi All.
> > >
> > > I have some trouble with my pcmcia networking.
> > > I'm Running woody with a self copiled 2.4.20 vanilla kernel and pcmcia
> > > modules from the kernel and not from pcmcia-source package.
> > >
> > > what happens when I start pcmcia is that everything works but I keep
> > > getting eth0: Interupt(s) dropped !
> > >
> > >  cat /proc/interrupts gives me:
> > >            CPU0
> > >   0:      70238          XT-PIC  timer
> > >   1:       2144          XT-PIC  keyboard
> > >   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
> > >   8:          3          XT-PIC  rtc
> > >  10:          8          XT-PIC  Texas Instruments PCI1225, Texas
> > > Instruments PCI1225 (#2)
> > >  12:       4299          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
> > >  14:      13846          XT-PIC  ide0
> > > NMI:          0
> > > LOC:          0
> > > ERR:          0
> > >
> > > lsmod gives me this:
> > > Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> > > pcnet_cs               10816   1
> > > 8390                    5904   0  [pcnet_cs]
> > > ds                      6408   2  [pcnet_cs]
> > > yenta_socket            8704   2
> > > pcmcia_core            32992   0  [pcnet_cs ds yenta_socket]
> > > rtc                     5692   0  (unused)
> > > soundcore               3460   0  (autoclean)
> > >
> > > and when I insert the pcmcia card it tells me it uses IRQ 0
> > > I tried it with the pcmcia-source modules with i86395 instead of
> > > yenta_socket and it then uses IRQ 3 without dropping interrupts.
> > > The card is a noname pcnet_cs 10mbit ne2000 which works.
> > > just those messages on the console are kind of annoying.
> > > so how can I tell the card to use IRQ 3 ?
> > >
> > > for reasons of simplicity I would prefer to stay with the kernel
> > > modules.
> >
> > Benny,
> > You could try adding the line "exclude irq0" to /etc/pcmcia/config.opts
>
> Tried that. doesn't help. when inserting the card it still tells me it uses
> irq 0.
>
> is there any debian specific place for these options?
> /etc/pcmcia/config.opts doesn't seem to be read.
>
> thanks benny

To Anyone Interested:

The Problem was that my kernel lacked ISA Support but my Card was 16bit in 
Which case the controller sends an ISA and a PCI interrupt

so Interrupt dropped was probably some ISA Interrupt on Which config.opts had 
no effect.

benny

benny