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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

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!

>After this, all communications to the ethernet card stop until I reboot
>the machine.  One person mentioned that it could be related to the IP
>bridging.  Any ideas will be greatly appreciated!

While IP bridging has a few really unusual bugs, this isn't likely related
to it.

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

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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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