[Techtalk] Multiple NICs, Bad IRQs?

[Julie]

Jeff Dike wrote:
> 
> jockgrrl at austin.rr.com said:
> > Nope, didn't cure the problem.  I now have eth0 set to IRQ 10 and I'm
> > still having framing problems.  This is what I get going to another
> > machine on the same 100BaseTX LAN --
> 
> Have you checked /var/log/messages on that machine and on other machines
> on that ethernet for suspicious-looking messages?
> 
> I had a problem with a NIC getting horrid performance and the only hint
> of what the problem might be was complaints in the error log of the other
> machine.  It turned out to be the NIC trying to be full-duplex on a
> half-duplex network.

Nope, no error messages on the other machines.

Oh -- the NIC works fine from Win2K.  This only happens on Linux ;-(
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