Bug#526983: linux-image-2.6.29-1-amd64: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit timed out
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:23:39PM +0300, Carlos Fonseca wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.29-1-amd64
> Version: 2.6.29-4~snapshot.13461
> Severity: important
>
>
> The network card on my laptop will typically hang with a
>
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit timed out
>
> message sometime after the computer is switched on. Once this happens, suspending to ram and resuming
> will bring the network back to life, while preserving connections already established and so on.
>
> Neither unconfiguring the network interface and configuring it again nor removing and reinserting the r8169 module helps.
>
> The problem never seems to happen again after resuming, even under heavy network usage. All previous kernels I have tried
> exhibit the same problem. Please see the two separate traces below.
Looking at the commits for r8169.c, several look like they could've
fixed this. Could you try 2.6.30 from unstable?
Cheers,
Moritz
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