I'm having a strange problem.  I have an X6DVA motherboard
with dual 2.8Ghz emt-64 processors, 1GB of RAM, SATA HD, etc.

I have two 4-port e1000 NICs in the system, on a riser card.  There
are also 2 built-in e1000s and an e100 in the 32-bit slot of the PCI
riser.

Regardless of which way order I put the 4-port NICs in, eth3 does
not get it's IRQ set up right.  (eth3 follows the physical position,
not the NICs, so I get the same failure on either NIC).

The problem seems to be that no interrupts are ever delivered for
this interface, and 'ethtool -t eth3' fails the interrupt test with value '4'.
When trying to send/receive traffic, I get TX watchdog timeouts.  The other
interfaces seem to work just fine.

I tried kernel 2.6.11 which uses irq 26, and 2.6.10-1.770_FC2smp, which
maps the irq to 209 or something like that.  Distribution is FC2, x86.
Kernel is compiled for x86-SMP as well.

I suspect that this may be a hardware issue of some sort, but if anyone
has any suggestions as to how to debug this further, please do let
me know.  I'm attaching the lspci and dmesg output in case that helps.

Thanks,
Ben


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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com