[vortex-bug] 3C905CX-TXM problem

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Many thanks Andrew, this confirms what I suspected.
I have now tried the card in a different machine
with the same kernel and its working fine, so I 
have a dodgy PCI bus on my hands.

Ian

 --- Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au> wrote: > Ian
Gresley-Jones wrote:
> > 
> > 'kernel: eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status
> 8003
> >  kernel: eth0: Host error, FIFO diagnostic
> register
> > 0000
> >  last message repeated 20 times'
> > 
> 
> This is a PCI master or target abort - I forget
> which. It's
> bad - something is seriously wrong with the PCI bus,
> on either
> the host side or the NIC.  Things to experiment with
> will
> include:
> 
> - Move the NIC to a different slot.
> - Try the NIC in a different machine.
> - Fiddle with BIOS settings.
> - Try a different card (it *must* be a busmastering
> one)
>   in that machine. 

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