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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:39:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: RE: [BUG] R8169 on 2.6.0-test9
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On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, John Bäckstrand wrote:

> I have tried the r8169 driver on 2.4.22 and 2.6.0-test9, and r8139cp on
> 2.4.20. On 2.4.22, it printed "too much work at interrupt" forever after
> 3-60 seconds of connection to a lan. I commented the printk out, that didnt
> help though. The behaviour is exactly the same on 2.6.0-test9 and 2.4.20, a
> few seconds after "ifconfig eth1 up" the machine hangs, though on 2.4.20
> atleast there was no printk message seen. ifconfig shows it does receive and
> send a few packets before it hangs, atleast on 2.4.22. The 8169 cards have
> been confirmed to be working, but not on this particular motherboard though.

Let's stick to r8169 for now, can you send a dmesg from test9 also throw 
in /proc/interrupts.