Re: "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7" error

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Don Montalvo wrote:

> does anyone know how to fix this error (which appears to be caused by 
> the netgear fa511 pcmcia card i have installed on my dell latitude 
> notebook? i'm running redhat9 and the notebook has 256m of ram and 20g 
> of hard drive space:
>
>     spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7
>
> thanks,
> don
>
>
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There's quite a lot of hits in google on this. Some people think its 
down to a very old bug in hardware implementation, others say it can be 
got rid of by disabling IO-APIC or something.

Stu C