bad IRQ table checksum; "Realtek 8169" diagnostic failed

[Lou Hevly]

At 05:34 21/11/06 -0500, Woodchuck wrote:
>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?

It's a dedicated server I'm renting so I don't have physical access to 
the machine. I will soon be doing the upgrade to 4.0.