Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out (was Re: Getting d-link DFE-530TX NIC working)
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, ScruLoose wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:06:18PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> Still pluggin' away at this problem with my D-Link DFE-530TX NIC.
>
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> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> eth0: Transmit timed out, status 0000, PHY status 786d, resetting...
> eth0: Reset not complete yet. Trying harder.
> eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 45e1.
> And naturally it reports 100% packet loss.
> See attached text file for more details.
>
> So I did some googling on that error message, and found this thread:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/3/31/178
> which suggests booting with the noapic option...
> Tried it -- no change. (I did that right by typing "linux noapic" at
> lilo's prompt, right?)
> There's also some mention in that thread about a patch?
>
> ... At this point I'm becoming less inclined to suspect my config, and
> more inclined to think something's actually wrong.
> But I _know_ the hardware works. I can boot the Knoppix CD and have
> a successful 100baseT network connection. (I keep doing that in order
> to drag kernel sources over to the blasted machine)...
>
> Help?
> --
I get the same thing when my system goes into 'standby mode' or apm
sleep?. I hit any key and it usually restarts. I've yet to find out how
to disable this. I'm using 2.4.20 custom.
-Kev
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