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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:53:58 -0800
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.3 RT8139too NIC problems [NOT resolved]
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The current 2.6.3 driver uses NAPI, and maybe that is related to your troubles.

What exactly is the hardware config (lspci output)?

There are debug messages produced, something like:
	eth0: Tx queue start entry 0  dirty entry 13
do you see these in dmesg output? or change your syslog.conf to capture
debug kernel messages to a different file.

Also, rebuild with RTL8139_DEBUG defined to pick up more info.

Seems like interrupts are getting disabled somehow.