Trying to fix 8139too driver problems

Kevin Huffenberger khuffenb at gmail.com
Mon May 23 15:56:42 UTC 2005


I tried noapic and nolapic before with no success, but adding kernel
option acpi=noirq did fix the networking problem.  What does this
indicate, kernel problem, misconfiguration, or flakey bios?

---Kevin

On 5/23/05, Mary Ellen Foster <mefoster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/23/05, Kevin Huffenberger <khuffenb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Meanwhile, the other error messages with regard to networking remain:
> > i.e. NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out.  I've attached below
> > the diagnostics run under the new kernel.  I'd like to chase down this
> > problem, but I'm unsure from what angle to attack.
> 
> These look somewhat similar to problems I'm having with the network
> card in my laptop (Broadcom something-or-other; the kernel driver is
> b44).
> 
> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154512 for a
> description of my problems.
> 
> MEF
> 
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