On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 12:16:56PM -0500, Gary Duzan wrote:
>    I recently picked up a Compaq Presario 910US which comes with
> a built-in RealTek 8139C+, and while it appears to be probed ok
> and pushes packets around, the performance is sub-abysmal (5-10
> second pings over the local ethernet), and I keep getting "watchdog
> timeout" messages. I get the same thing with 1.5.3 GENERIC, 1.6
> GENERIC, 1.6 GENERIC_LAPTOP, and 1.6I+nathenw_sa custom kernels.
> I assume interrupts are being lost, but a quick glance at the BIOS
> settings, the 8139C+ spec, and the code didn't turn up anything
> obviously wrong. I even tried a patch or two based on FreeBSD
> driver changes, but without effect.
> 
>    Any ideas where to look next? Has anyone else run into this
> problem? I'm attaching dmesg output for the 1.6* kernels in case
> it might help. Thanks.

You have the rtk and both ohci at the same IRQ. maybe try to disable the 2
USB interfaces in BIOS.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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