From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261247AbUBVNk4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:40:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261248AbUBVNk4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:40:56 -0500 Received: from mail-10.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.42]:48877 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261247AbUBVNkz (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:40:55 -0500 Subject: kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out From: Sven Dowideit To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1077457080.1208.17.camel@sven> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:38:00 +1100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have an IBM thinkpad T21 that has a 3Com ethernet card that has not been working in a long while (with ACPI turned on). Recently (the last 2-3 releases or so) it has also been getting the following messages (until i remember to to an ifconfgi eth0 down) Feb 23 00:22:00 sven kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Feb 23 00:22:35 sven last message repeated 3 times Feb 23 00:23:35 sven last message repeated 5 times Feb 23 00:24:35 sven last message repeated 5 times Feb 23 00:25:35 sven last message repeated 5 times Feb 23 00:26:00 sven last message repeated 2 times the other weird thing, is that my computer pauses every few seconds, for a second, and it seems like this symptom goes away after the ifconfig down. any ideas? cheers Sven ------------------------------------------------------------------ 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c556B Hurricane CardBus (rev 20) Subsystem: 3Com Corporation: Unknown device 6356 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at 1800 [size=256] [virtual] Memory at e8101400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] [virtual] Memory at e8101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Expansion ROM at [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:21 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1800