Re: "eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered" with 2.2.13pre8

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 24 Sep 1999 18:23:25 +0100 (BST)


> So I figured I should try out a more recent version and checked out
> 2.2.13pre8 but then I hit another problem (within a couple hours):
> the network connection gets frozen with the messages:
>
> eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e601.
> eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device?

Thats indicating it thinks this is a hardware issue. There are lots of reasons
it could be occuring. Firstly boot with the boot option "noapic", that will
make it handle interrupts in SMP like in UP mode

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