ACPI breaks network, old AMD K6, just FYI

[Nate Lawson]

Michael Ross wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i just installed 7.0-RC1 on an old AMD K6 machine,
> and enabling ACPI breaks networking.
> 
> Trying to access anything but localhost, tcpdump does not see any
> packets at all.
> Pinging a LAN machine leads to "sendo: no buffer space available" after
> about 100 packets.
> 
> Part of dmesg follows.
> As mentioned in the subject, this is just FYI, I can run the machine
> fine with ACPI turned off.

If older than about 2001, just disable acpi and use a proprietary
monitoring package like lmsensors.

-- 
Nate