Hi Andrew! I got this message in my logs so here I am... BTW, it is not the first time (the worst case I got is kernel: eth0: command 0x3002 took 137080 usecs!) Here is this output of the kernel for my card: Feb 6 13:39:46 shookay kernel: 3c59x.c:LK1.1.12 06 Jan 2000 Donald Becker and others. http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html $Revision: 1.102.2.46 $ Feb 6 13:39:46 shookay kernel: See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt Feb 6 13:39:46 shookay kernel: eth0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xe880, 00:c0:4f:09:71:89, IRQ 18 Feb 6 13:39:46 shookay kernel: product code '' rev 00.14 date 07-03-97 Feb 6 13:39:46 shookay kernel: 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. Feb 6 13:39:46 shookay kernel: MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d. Feb 6 13:39:46 shookay kernel: Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. At that time, I wasn't doing anything special. Sometimes, I got those too: Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, full 0; dirty 4381299(3) current 4381299(3). Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: Transmit list 00000000 vs. c14df230. Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: 0: @c14df200 length 800005ea status 000105ea Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: 1: @c14df210 length 80000042 status 00010042 Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: 2: @c14df220 length 800005ea status 800105ea Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: 3: @c14df230 length 80000042 status 00010042 Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: 4: @c14df240 length 800005ea status 000105ea Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: 5: @c14df250 length 800005ea status 000105ea Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: 6: @c14df260 length 800005ea status 000105ea Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: 7: @c14df270 length 800005ea status 000105ea Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: 8: @c14df280 length 800005ea status 000105ea Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: 9: @c14df290 length 800005ea status 000105ea Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: 10: @c14df2a0 length 800005ea status 000105ea Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: 11: @c14df2b0 length 800005ea status 000105ea Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: 12: @c14df2c0 length 800005ea status 000105ea Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: 13: @c14df2d0 length 80000042 status 00010042 Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: 14: @c14df2e0 length 800005ea status 000105ea Feb 1 12:54:52 shookay kernel: 15: @c14df2f0 length 800005ea status 000105ea Could it be related to the fu^H^Hspecial builtin sound card I use (it is a Dell with a crappy i810 soundcard on it): I got many DMA overruns... If you need more data, please let me know. Regards, Mathieu. -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : mchouque@e-steel.com Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way. -- Alan J. Perlis - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org