Bug#556433: [squeeze] 3c59x: NETDEV WATCHDOG: transmit timed out

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi again,

Steve Karg wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,

>> Do you get the timeouts with a 3.x kernel from sid or experimental?
>> If so, please report this to the netdev@vger.kernel.org list,
>> attaching dmesg output from bootup and cc-ing Steffen Klassert
>> <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> in case he has driver-specific
>> insights plus this bug log so we can track it.
>
> I will try that when I get some free time. I starred this in my gmail inbox. :-)

I'm just curious: did you get a chance to try 3.x.y from sid?

[...]
> I think the Linux 2.4 kernels worked, but it would have been many
> years ago that I used it, and I don't really recall. I originally used
> a PCMCIA wireless adapter on this laptop when it was running Debian
> and KDE long ago.  I pulled it out of my stash when my NSLU2 crashed
> and I really missed having a keyboard and screen. I wiped the old
> KDE+2.4 kernel, and did a fresh Debian install. I tried to use the
> wireless, but it was too slow for home file serving.  I had the 3com
> PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet adapter lying around and decided to use it.
> That is when I started having problems with the 2.6 kernel and the
> adapter.

Ah, ok.  (I remember trying to use a 3com Etherlink III (?) PCMCIA
card years ago and not being able to get it to work at all.  I think
the card didn't support autonegotiation and at the time I didn't know
how to configure it.  Luckily your card is a little better than that
one.)

Thanks for working to improve hardware support in Debian.

Jonathan