Re: PROBLEM: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. AND VM: killing process..

Alfred Munnikes (munnikes@cistron.nl)
Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:27:35 +0200


Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xe000, IRQ 10, 00:00:B4:B6:73:BC.
>
> > spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
> > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> > eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x16, ISR=0x0, t=26.
> > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> > eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x16, ISR=0x0, t=23.
>
> apparently interrupt 10 got lost and was delivered as a spurious
> interrupt. This can be the result of out-of-spec hardware. (card or
> board.)

Sorry, I have a network card without a networkcable ( at this time), so
there is not a network cable plugged into the network card, that makes
the timeout. Nothing to worry about (the working kernel 2.4.9 has the
same error message)

Afred
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