just to make things more interesting, I have this card working on a dual 
athlon system (with the attached config) on 2.6.7

David Lang

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, David Lang wrote:

Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:52:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Lang <redacted>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <redacted>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Bug 4774] e1000 driver works on UP, but not SMP x86_64

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

quoted

------- Additional Comments From nacc@us.ibm.com  2005-06-25 10:55 -------
Hrm, that means that the corresponding PCI device (adapter->pdev->irq) is
requesting an IRQ greater than 224? Could you also attach the SMP .config? 
I
assume all you did was enabled SMP, ran make oldconfig & rebuilt? Do you 
know of
any kernel that *does* work?

I have a dual athlon system which I have used with one of these cards without 
a problem, monday I'll try pulling some of the cards out of a machine and see 
if that eliminates the error.

I had the SMP config, tested it, then disables SMP and recompiled to generate 
the .config I sent earlier

attached is the config I used with the debug test

David Lang

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