bdbrowder@gmail.com wrote:

> I recently purchased a machine with the following specs:
>
> Dimension C521,Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2.00GHz, 512Kx2)
> 1GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz
> Integrated Graphics
> 250GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200RPM)
> Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
> 48X CD-RW/DVD Combination Drive
> Integrated Audio
>
> I also purchased a second PCI ethernet adapter so that I could use the
> machine as a router. Here are the details of the ethernet adapters
> from lspci:
>
> 04:07.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0
> 100Base-TX (rev 02)
> 04:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
>
>
> The install of Etch went smoothly and everything works great, except
> that a couple times a day I see this error:
>
> irq 7: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
>
> Call Trace:
> [] __report_bad_irq+0x30/0x7d
> [] note_interrupt+0x1ed/0x22e
> [] __do_IRQ+0xc7/0x105
> [] __do_softirq+0x5e/0xd5
> [] do_IRQ+0x65/0x73
> [] default_idle+0x0/0x50
> [] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
> [] default_idle+0x29/0x50
> [] cpu_idle+0x95/0xb8
> [] start_secondary+0x43e/0x44d
>
> handlers:
> [] (b44_interrupt+0x0/0xaa [b44])
> Disabling IRQ #7
>
>
>
> The integrated ethernet adapter is using interrupt 7, and at this
> point I lose my network connection.
>
> Here are the contents of /proc/interrupts:
>
> CPU0 CPU1
> 0: 558459 2341 XT-PIC timer
> 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 5: 6470 179 XT-PIC ohci_hcd:usb1, eth1
> 7: 7016 571999 XT-PIC eth0
> 8: 0 0 XT-PIC rtc
> 10: 2788 186 XT-PIC libata, HDA Intel
> 11: 0 0 XT-PIC libata
> 15: 0 1 XT-PIC ehci_hcd:usb2
> NMI: 65 50
> LOC: 560806 560785
> ERR: 7844
> MIS: 0
>
> I am currently booting with the following options: noapic acpi=off
> nofb. I tried booting with irqpoll, but that caused more problems.
> Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Not that I really have a clue about that, but IRQ7 is the legacy interrupt
for LPT1: or /dev/lp0 as well. You did disable the lpt port in your bios
setup, did you?
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