netdev - Re: troubles with r8169

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Date:	Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:38:19 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
To:	Vadim Dyadkin <dyadkin@....pnpi.spb.ru>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: troubles with r8169

Vadim Dyadkin wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I need help from developers, may be, because I have some troubles with
> r8169 card.
> I use laptop ASUS a6tc. The network card in this laptop is r8169. Video
> is GeForce Go 7300. When I load linux (I use linux almost always), the
> network and video cards take the same IRQ every time.
> ************************
> # cat /proc/interrupts
>            CPU0       CPU1
>   0:    3530622     177152    XT-PIC-XT        timer
>   1:       1910          9   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>   8:          1          1   IO-APIC-edge      rtc
>   9:      41627        115   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
>  12:        122         10   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>  14:         38         12   IO-APIC-edge      ide0
>  15:      53721          8   IO-APIC-edge      ide1
>  16:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   yenta
>  17:      34909          1   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ohci_hcd:usb1
>  18:         13          1   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb2
>  19:     332826          1   IO-APIC-fasteoi   nvidia, eth0
>  20:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   sdhci:slot0
>  21:      26981          1   IO-APIC-fasteoi   HDA Intel
> NMI:          0          0
> LOC:     177152    3530365
> ERR:          1
> MIS:          0
> **************************
> You can see, now it's 19, sometimes it's 17 or 21, but every time it is
> the same.
> Often, the computer hangs, only the reboot can help. In /var/log/messages:
> ************************
> Jul 14 19:15:29 satah NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> Jul 14 19:15:32 satah NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 00cfda2c
> Jul 14 19:15:40 satah NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 00cfda2d
> Jul 14 19:15:48 satah NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 00cfda2e
> Jul 14 19:15:56 satah NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 00cfda2f
> Jul 14 19:16:04 satah NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 00cfda30
> Jul 14 19:16:12 satah NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 00cfda31
> Jul 14 19:16:17 satah NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> Jul 14 19:16:20 satah NVRM: Xid (0002:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 00cfda32
> Jul 14 19:16:35 satah NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> Jul 14 19:16:53 satah NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> ****************************
> There's no such problem in windows. Could you help me with it?

This could well be a problem with the nvidia driver as it shares the 
same IRQ. The first step would be to see if the problem still shows up 
without the nvidia binary module loaded.

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Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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