Re: forcedeth probems using linux 2.6.15-rc1

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Sun Nov 20 2005 - 10:08:27 EST


On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:26:42PM +0100, Anders Peter Fugmann wrote:
> The forcedeth driver occasionally hangs, sometimes after several hours,
> sometimes after just a few minutes of traffic. Hardware is a Nvidia NForce3
> motherboard with onboard LAN
> (Linux compiled for 64 bit, using gcc 4.0.3 prerelease). Removing and
> inserting resolves to problem for
> a short period of time. The driver works without complaints on Linux 2.6.14.
>
> The following is being printed to the kernel logs repeatably:
>
> Nov 14 22:12:32 gw kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out

I've filed a bug at kernel bugzilla, so your report won't be lost.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5632

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