[PLUG] Network card problem

[Keith Morse]

On 6 Sep 2002, Joshua Jacob Zeckser wrote:

> I believe I have discovered the culprit, but I can't figure out how to
> get rid of the problem. I checked /var/log/messages and found:
> 
> eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xd48a5000, 00:a0:cc:a2:97:e1, IRQ 10.
> eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status=0xd9000010.
> eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status=0xd9000038.
> eth0: increased Tx theshold (that isn't a typo), txcfg 0x10f0103e.
> eth0: PCI error 0x800000
> 
> Those are all the messages with 'eth0'.
> The only other message with a reference to 'IRQ 10' is:
> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:12.0
> 
> So...How do I find out what is conflicting, which IRQ I can use, and how
> to change IRQ settings?


These are some of the tools I know when troubleshooting pci issues.

	lspci

	cat /proc/pci

	dmesg

	scanpci

Also, some bioses will display a listing of pci based devices and their 
irq's at the tail end of the "post" sequence and just before the os loads 
the bootloader.