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In article <54hmse$gup@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>,
David A. Ranch <dranch@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
>I'm hoping someone can help me with this problem I'm having.  On a Linux 
>box, I'm getting the following SYSLOG error:
>
>	Kernel: eth0: Infinte loop in interupt, Status FFFF

Donald Becker <becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
: The message comes from the 3Com 3C509 driver.
: It's there to inform you that something has gone horribly wrong.
: In this case, status 0xffff, the card has disappeared from the I/O space!

: More likely one of the following is the problem:
:    the card isn't seated correctly
:    your hardware (especially the power supply) is flakey
:    you had a power hit
:    you tried to insert a second 3c509 module, deactivating all of the card.
:    you ran an ISA Plug-and-Play activation program

We have a similar problem on our P166 with a 3c509 ISA card running
Slackware96 and kernel 2.0.0.  The most common console messages are:
        Waiting for 3c509 to discard packet, status 2011.
        Waiting for 3c509 to discard packet, status 2001.
which don't cause any problems, but still make us wonder.  Occasionally,
we get:
        eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt, status 2011.
and again, it appears harmless, since things keep running normally.  Also,
every now and then we get also harmless sequences like this:
        eth0: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size 1514.
        eth0: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size 1514.
        eth0: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size 962.
and
        Couldn't get a free page.....


The only thing of note about our configuration is that a NeXT box
sitting next door is running software that uses write() calls to
plunk 3MB files onto the Linux box over NFS, where the Linux box
is the NFS server.

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