Re: 3Com card

[joseph evan porter <jeport0@ewl.uky.edu>]

Do you have a multi-processor motherboard?  I know my 3com card had a
hardware conflict with the dual processor stuff.   I'm now using kernel
2.1.120 with the 3Com driver downgraded to 0.99E.  That config seems to
work with the SMP switch.  If you're not using SMP, I don't know what to
tell you.  You might try recompiling your kernel with different versions
of the 3com driver (it worked for me).

Hope that helps,
Joe

> 
> I keep getting this error with my 3com 3C509 NIC card:
> 
> eth0: infinite loop in interrupt, status 2011.
> waiting for 3C509 to discard packet, status 2011.
> 
> Any ideas on what is causing this?  It seems to happen most when I use 
> tcpdump otherwise it just pops up that error message every once in a 
> while.  I do have power-save enabled on my computer so that might be 
> adding to these error messages.  Other than that it is a pretty normal 
> setup.  So if anyone has any ideas, I'd like to hear them.  Thanks!
>