Re: [gentoo-dev] Install problems

[Wesley Moxam - CSCI/P2000 <wmoxam@scs.ryerson.ca>]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Daniel Robbins wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:17:32PM -0400, Wesley Moxam - CSCI/P2000 wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that emerge at first seemed to hang, then I got the
> > message: eth0: Too much work (or something to that effect). After a
> 
> This sounds like a kernel error, which means that the kernel NIC driver is
> having problems.  Post what specific kind of NIC you have, and maybe someone
> can help.  Maybe the epic100 module in 2.4.4-ac9 is broken or needs a patch
> for your particular NIC.
> 

I fixed the problem that I had with my /etc/hosts and re-ran
emerge. It connected with the server, but cointinued to have problems with
my network card.  It's listed as an SMSC EPIC/100 83c170 when I boot up my
current disto ( kernel 2.4.5 ).

The message I get is this:

eth0: Too much work at interupt, IntrStatus = 0x00250004          (only
printed once)

eth0: Too much work at interupt, IntrStatus = 0x00050004          (printed
many times)

I've got a Digital card that uses the 'tulip' driver that is laying around
here so I'll try it out and see how it goes.

-- Wes