Hi Marek!
I had a similar problem and for me there were two solutions.
1. Disable ACPI (for example with the 'acpi=off' boot option)
This was no major impact for me as ACPI never worked here well...
2. Revert the pci-init-ordering-fix from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.70/2.5.70-mm8/broken-out/pci-init-ordering-fix.patch
This may be only suboptimal, as this patch seems to fix some problems...
Best regards
Thomas Schlichter
Marek Habersack wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As mentioned in the subject, the kernel doesn't work with a 3Com 3c905
> card. Here's what's shown on the screen and in the logs on both startup and
> in intervals during normal system run:
>
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e601.
> diagnostics: net 0cc0 media 8802 dma 0000003b fifo 0000
> eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device?
> Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 240(0) current 240(0)
> Transmit list 00000000 vs. efce2200.
> 0: @efce2200 length 8000002a status 0000002a
> 1: @efce22a0 length 80000050 status 00000050
> 2: @efce2340 length 8000002a status 0000002a
> 3: @efce23e0 length 8000002a status 0000002a
> 4: @efce2480 length 8000002a status 0000002a
> 5: @efce2520 length 80000036 status 00000036
> 6: @efce25c0 length 80000036 status 00000036
> 7: @efce2660 length 80000036 status 00000036
> 8: @efce2700 length 80000050 status 00000050
> 9: @efce27a0 length 80000050 status 00000050
> 10: @efce2840 length 80000050 status 00000050
> 11: @efce28e0 length 80000050 status 00000050
> 12: @efce2980 length 80000050 status 00000050
> 13: @efce2a20 length 80000050 status 00000050
> 14: @efce2ac0 length 80000050 status 80000050
> 15: @efce2b60 length 80000050 status 80000050
> eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer.
>
> All the earlier -mm kernels worked fine in this regard,
>
> marek
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