Subject: Re: rtl8139: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

From: Marcus Better <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:34:51 +0200

Thomas Hellström wrote:
> Strange. I've also seen the i915 sending false interrupts on its own
> line, though.

Here's the interrupt table with i915 loaded:

~$ cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0
  0:     401031          XT-PIC  timer
  1:       3681          XT-PIC  i8042
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  8:          0          XT-PIC  rtc
  9:          0          XT-PIC  acpi
 10:        997          XT-PIC  yenta, Intel 82801CA-ICH3, Intel
82801CA-ICH3 Modem
 11:      93823          XT-PIC  uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2, eth0,
i915@pci:0000:00:02.0
 12:      75631          XT-PIC  i8042
 14:      18284          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:      13901          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0
ERR:          0

> Does the "noirqdebug" option fix the problem?

Yes, it appears to fix it.

Marcus