Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:56:16 -0700 | From | Herman Oosthuysen <> | Subject | Re: Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ???? |
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A glitch on any interrupt line, will cause IRQ7 to trigger on the 8259A. It is a documented 'feature' and is not really useful, but software has to handle it gracefully.
Zsolt Babak wrote: >>i get it on my thinkpad 560e when using a linksys ne2k pcmcia card. i only >>get the message once, and it's triggered after a few seconds of high >>throughput (fast, fd). >> > > Same here with an Acer TravelMate laptop, with an smc pcmcia network card. The > message occures only once at high network load. But the system is quite > stable, so I didn't bother to track this down... > > Oh, and the laptop is based on Ali, not on VIA chips. > > Zsolt.
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