ERROR: Broken Via-Rhine NIC In "Stable" 2.4.22

ERROR: Broken Via-Rhine NIC In "Stable" 2.4.22

[Rod Bacon]

Just attempted upgrade from 2.4.21 on a Via M10000 Mini-ITX system that
was working perfectly. 2.4.22 results in eth0 not working, and constant
"NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out. Resetting".



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Rod Bacon - Technical Manager
JASCO Consulting - http://www.jasco.net.au 
Email - rodb@jasco.net.au 
Phone : 03 9432 6376     Fax : 03 9432 6378

Re: ERROR: Broken Via-Rhine NIC In "Stable" 2.4.22

[Resident Boxholder]

I saw that same message in 2.6.0-t3. Sometimes immediately the netcard 
would not ping
and sometimes it would fail after a while.

Do you see an "irq ? disabled" message, too? That would be typical.

Try turning apic off in bios-cmos-setup and letting linux turn it on. I 
don't have to use drastic
pci=noacpi, I can just disable serial and parallel and USB and turn apic 
off in bios and run
with no cd drives. Easier for me.

-Bob

Rod Bacon wrote:

>Just attempted upgrade from 2.4.21 on a Via M10000 Mini-ITX system that
>was working perfectly. 2.4.22 results in eth0 not working, and constant
>"NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out. Resetting".
>  
>