In the next few minutes I will be on that list because I really have a multitude of questions my only question is this: Is it only for linux or other OSs as well because Freebsd bahaves even worse with the realtek card. On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Donald Becker wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2000 semat@wawa.eahd.or.ug wrote: > > > I have a rtl8139 card which I am running on SuSE lnux 6.4 kernel 2.2.14 > > and every so often I get this message in my logs. > > Sep 1 11:52:33 alpha kernel: eth1: RTL8139 Interrupt line blocked, status 1. > > repeated over and over again. what can I do about this? > > You should be asking most rtl8139 driver questions on the realtek driver > mailing list. See > http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html > for mailing list information. > > This is likely the APIC bug. If > - you are running an SMP kernel and > - the card status indicates that it is trying to raise an interrupt, and > - the interrupt count is increasing > boot using the "noapic" option. We use this option on all of our SMP > installations. > > You can run 'rtl8139-diag' to find the card's status, including the > interrupt status. > > Donald Becker becker@scyld.com > Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com > 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Beowulf-II Cluster Distribution > Annapolis MD 21403 > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
