via-rhine on 2.4.23-pre6 Too much work at interrupt, status=0x00001000.
The system used to run 2.4.22 and did not have this too much work problem. There were some other hardware changes. The system used to be a Pentium 100 on a Triton 430FX chipset Intel Advanced/EV board. Now it is a K6 2 - 500 on a Via Apollo MVP3 chipset on FIC VA-503+ board. The NIC stayed the same. The kernel was recompiled and ACPI was enabled.
I noticed in 2.4.23-pre2 -> pre3
[netdrvr] sync with 2.5: epic100, fealnx, via-rhine, winbond-840
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.19 July-12-2003 Written by Donald Becker
http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
eth0: VIA VT86C100A Rhine at 0xe4001000, 00:80:c8:d3:36:a6, IRQ 10.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d advertising 05e1 Link 40a1.
eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status=0x00001000.
eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status=0x00001000.
eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status=0x00001000.
eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status=0x00001000.
eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status=0x00001000.
eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status=0x00001000.
eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status=0x00001000.
eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status=0x00001000.
eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status=0x00001000.
eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status=0x00001000.
John