From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 22:31:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 22:31:10 -0400 Received: from isis.its.uow.edu.au ([130.130.68.21]:28888 "EHLO isis.its.uow.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 22:30:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3B0336E1.5ED05565@uow.edu.au> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 12:26:41 +1000 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-ac13 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Anastasov CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: locked 3c905B with 2.4.5pre2 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Julian Anastasov wrote: > > eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device? This is a failure of the APIC interrupt controller in the 2.4 kernel. You'll need to boot your kernel with the `noapic' LILO option. Or run -ac kernels, which have a software workaround which fixes the problem. Rumour has it that the APIC fix will be merged into Linus' tree very soon. It needs to be - one of the more important ethernet drivers is basically unviable on x86 SMP in 2.4. -