RE: disable ACPI as a solution for "NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out"?

[Allen Martin]

> /proc/interrupts
>            CPU0
>   0: 1918692128    IO-APIC-edge  timer
>   1:    3397768    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
>   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>   3: 1969607482    IO-APIC-edge  NVidia NForce2
>   9:          0   IO-APIC-level  acpi
>  11:  127934187    IO-APIC-edge  eth0
>  12:   95839554    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
>  14:   27125149    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
> NMI:          0
> LOC: 1854644890
> ERR:          0
> MIS:          0

There's your problem, eth0 should have a level triggered interrupt.
Disabling ACPI or APIC will help.

-Allen
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