On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Thomas Beer wrote: > > It's a message from the driver, likely an 8390 driver. > > It mostly likely indicates that you have a hardware fault. > > But the card works properly. It only pops up after every reboot. > Should I change the card? If it only happens once after reboot the problem is just that the reset circuitry isn't a faithful clone of the real 8390. In general, the answer is "yes, you should always replace 8390 cards with something modern". Any modern PCI bus master will have much lower CPU overhead. Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html