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Seeing this strange error message when I start up the networking on my new firewall. I'm using three surplus 8139s as my network cards, and when the network links come up I get these error messages: It only seems to happen when the network comes up, and it works after that without error messages. Dec 13 05:02:49 firewall kernel: Badness in interruptible_sleep_on_timeout at kernel/sched.c:2990 Dec 13 05:02:49...

I have a CentOS 5.8 box that is dropping packets (just from ping). The network is 8139 RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ Rev 10 Adding the parameters "pci=noacpi acpi=off " has helped but it still happens. Is there something else that helps the network not drop packets? Thanks, jerry