On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 05:52, Peter wrote: > Hi, > > > basically I have some interrupt problems with kernel 2.6 on my Thinkpad. > And I'm looking urgently for assistence after having googled a lot and > having tried several things to resolve my prob. > > Excuse the long text here, but I wish to give as much information as > possible to enable someone to give me some helpful hints. Peter, Here is the output from my T40 also with Atheros chipset: > [root@rltp40f2 root]# cat /proc/interrupts > CPU0 > 0: 6290630 XT-PIC timer > 1: 9757 XT-PIC i8042 > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade > 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc > 9: 91 XT-PIC acpi > 11: 394124 XT-PIC ehci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, ath0, yenta, yenta, radeon@PCI:1:0:0, Intel 82801DB-ICH4 > 12: 289023 XT-PIC i8042 > 14: 201226 XT-PIC ide0 > 15: 97001 XT-PIC ide1 > NMI: 0 > ERR: 0 > [root@rltp40f2 root]# uname -r > 2.6.8-1.521 > [root@rltp40f2 root]# grep ath0 /var/log/messages > Sep 5 11:02:07 rltp40f2 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 > Sep 5 22:08:17 rltp40f2 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: mac 4.2 phy 3.0 5ghz radio 1.7 2ghz radio 2.3 > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: 802.11 address: 00:05:4e:41:d1:c6 > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BE traffic > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_VI traffic > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_VO traffic > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: Atheros 5211: mem=0xc0210000, irq=11 > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: mac 4.2 phy 3.0 5ghz radio 1.7 2ghz radio 2.3 > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: 802.11 address: 00:05:4e:41:d1:c6 > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BE traffic > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_VI traffic > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_VO traffic > Sep 6 21:16:19 rltp40f2 kernel: ath0: Atheros 5211: mem=0xc0210000, irq=11 > Sep 6 21:17:54 rltp40f2 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 I have also disabled my floppy drive in BIOS but did not do anything to modprobe.conf.... I know this may not help per se.... but the card has worked pretty well for me.... Let me know if there is anything else you would like to compare. --Rob