From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461) Description of problem: lspci returns 3 x 3com 3c900 NIC. kernel returns "kernel: eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device? IRQ is 15 for eth0, same as CDROM. If CDROM is disabled, eth0 becomes disabled. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RH7.2, or 7.3 on an HP LH4, with any PCI adapters 2. Boot 3. Watch non-existent PCI devices get detected by Kudzu. Watch the modules fail to load into the kernel, as they don't exist. Actual Results: Networking performance grinds to a crawl. Errors re-occur every 5 seconds. Logs swell up hugely. Any additional PCI devices, such as SCSI adapters with TBU's attached will fail to load their modules. Expected Results: System worked great with 6.2, and 7.0. Additional info: I am sure it's related to the HP LH4 hardware, and possibly the HP smart IRQ router. Here's a kernel patch - http://kernelnewbies.org/kernels/tlw8/SOURCES/linux-2.4.18-scsi- pci_enable_device.patch that seems to imply this multiple device issue is specific to this model. An HP tech document suggests turning off the smart IRQ router, in an unrelated document for Windows 2000, when accessing IRQ 9. If I do "ifconfig eth1 down" (shutting down the 2nd NIC, eth0 also drops off the network.
if this is an UP system, could you try the SMP kernel? if this is an SMP system, could you try passing "noapic" on the kernel command line? (and that patch looks really really evil btw)
I have tried both SMP and UP kernels, in both 7.2, and am currently at 2.4.18- 10 on 7.3. I don't think I've tried passing apic to the kernel. I will do so.
I have just tested passing noapic on the command line to the kernel, and it made no difference at all. I have also changed HP IRQ routing from smart to fixed, in the BIOS, in case it was a related issue, and that has not made any difference either.
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