Bug#556433: linux-image-2.6.30-2-486: 3c59x: NETDEV WATCHDOG: transmit timed out

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 09:08:32PM -0600, Steve Karg wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.2-486
> Version: 2.6.30-8~bpo50+1
> Severity: critical
> 
> Under heavy network usage (i.e. viewing photos served via sshfs to
> another PC), Dell Latitude CP M233ST laptop running as home
> fileserver, network stops functioning. I have to reboot to get the
> network working again.  I read that the IRQ handling was changed, and
> it was suggested to try one of the newest kernels.  I used the
> linux-image-2.6.26-2-486 initially.  Then I tried an experimental
> build-image kernel (linux-image-2.6.30-1-486) and backports kernel
> (linux-image-2.6.30-2-486) and although less frequent, the NETDEV
> WATCHDOG still occurs under heavy usage.

Hi,
The next release of Debian (6.0, code name Squeeze) will be based
on 2.6.32. Please test the current 2.6.32 from unstable and tell
us whether the problem persists. If so, we should report it upstream
to the kernel.org developers.

The 2.6.32 kernel is available from packages.debian.org and can
be installed in both Debian stable, testing and unstable
installations.

Thanks,
        Moritz