From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: On a Thinkpad 600X using a 3com PCMCIA network card: Networking works for a short time after being started via ifup (usually about 60-90 seconds) after which point it fails, with the dmesg output "eth0: interrupt(s) dropped!" Normally I would suspect hardware failure but networking was working perfectly fine on this machine with its old operating system, with the 3c574_cs driver. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-1.667 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 'ifup eth0' 2. wait 60-90 seconds 3. attempt to ping/nslookup/ssh/etc. another machine Additional info:
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