Re: Networking help

[Didi Damian <ddamian@home.com>]

Robert Rati [ratirh@cs.purdue.edu] wrote:
> The message in /var/log/syslog said this:
> Jul  2 20:27:08 Obereon kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt?
> TSR=0x1, ISR=0x2, t=3500.
> Jul  2 20:27:18 Obereon kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt?
> TSR=0x1, ISR=0x2, t=1000.
> Jul  2 20:27:28 Obereon kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt?
> TSR=0x1, ISR=0x3, t=1000.
> Jul 2 20:27:48 Obereon last message repeated 2 times
> Jul  2 20:27:55Obereon
> ypbind[157]: broadcast: RPC: Timed out.
> 
> This message can't mean what it seems.  A lost interrupt?  That's not
> possible is it?  I have never encountered this thing before.  Can anyone
> give some insite?

 I've seen this message a couple of times. Try specifying the IRQ and/or the
io port when you load the module for the NIC. That did it for me.
 
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D.Damian