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APIC woes!
Yet again on a fresh compile of Gentoo more coz I upgraded my harddrive to 120 GB. Finally! a few GBs available. :-)

Surprisingly, I get a Seagate drive. I was expecting a Hitachi though.

Never mind. The next irritant I found was some error on APIC in my /var/log/messages like this:

Nov 26 17:13:02 killernerd APIC error on CPU0: 00(40)

And used to repeat endlessly.

To fix that I passed a kernel option 'noapic' in my grub.conf

Guess what? That stopped my SiS900 ethernet card to stop working with the following error in /var/log/messages

Nov 28 13:39:25 killernerd kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Nov 28 13:39:26 killernerd kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
Nov 28 13:39:26 killernerd kernel: eth1: Transmit timeout, status 00000004 00000249
Nov 28 13:39:34 killernerd kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
Nov 28 13:39:34 killernerd kernel: eth1: Transmit timeout, status 00000004 00000241
Nov 28 13:39:42 killernerd kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
Nov 28 13:39:42 killernerd kernel: eth1: Transmit timeout, status 00000004 00000240


Now I have removed the 'noapic' kernel option. And so ... so ... so ... my Sis900 is back in business (and the earlier errors have also disappeared! :O )

Ah! (auto)Goodie.

More later!™

-Nerdy

PS: Wikipedia APIC page.