Using RH6.2 Workstation install (with applicable updates), started getting kernel error messages after switching from KDE to GNOME. Error is: kernel: eth0: interrupt(s) dropped! This causes all network activity to stop and the pcmcia service must be restarted. I installed KDE as my desktop environment WITHOUT any Gnome components. Upon installing Gnome and Helix, started getting the above errors at random intervals ranging from 1 sec to hours after restarting the pcmcia service. The module man page states: eth#: interrupt(s) dropped! Indicates that the driver did not receive an interrupt notification for some reason. The driver will poll the card (with a significant performance penalty) if the problem persists. The most likely cause is an interrupt conflict and/or host bridge configuration problem. I suspect this is related to ESD as it was not installed prior to Gnome and did not have this message until this time. Can this be confirmed? Any work-arounds? I tried turning off sound events and even the sound server in Gnome-config without change. Have tried changing the module "max_interrupt_work" and "irq_list" options in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts to no avail. Configuration as follows: Toshiba Tecra 550CDT Laptop 4 G HDD 160 M Mem Have ran RH on this laptop since 5.1 :-)
Do you see this problem with the RH gnome rpms installed, or just Helix ?
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