bad IRQ table checksum; "Realtek 8169" diagnostic failed

[Woodchuck]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Lou Hevly wrote:

> Greetings:
> 
> On a fresh install of OpenBSD 3.9 there are a couple lines in the dmesg 
> that concern me:
> ...
> pcibios0: bad IRQ table checksum
> ...
> re0 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 "Realtek 8169" rev 0x10: irq 11, address 
> 00:01:6c:d5:7b:c6
> rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 0
> re0: diagnostic failed, failed to receive packet in loopback mode
> re0: attach aborted due to hardware diag failure
> 
> I tried searching for these messages on Google but could find nothing 
> relevant concerning whether these problems are significant.  Here is my 
> entire dmesg:

You might try booting 4.0 on the box (download the boot floppy and
see if it boots).  Does the device work under older versions/other
OS's?

Dave