From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Romieu Subject: Re: rtl8139: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:16:04 +0200 Message-ID: <20060630211604.GA5302@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from zeus1.kernel.org ([204.152.191.4]:25819 "EHLO zeus1.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964891AbWGBAsC (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jul 2006 20:48:02 -0400 Received: from fr.zoreil.com (electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com [213.41.134.224]) by zeus1.kernel.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k5ULK3Be022812 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:20:20 GMT To: Marcus Better Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Marcus Better : > I'm seeing this problem on my Acer Travelmate 223X laptop with built-in > Realtek 8139: The ethernet stops working, usually after at most a few > minutes operation. The problem appears in kernel 2.6.16 and 2.6.17, but not > in 2.6.15. Broken again :o( In a better world, you would narrow the suspect with a git bissect [1] between v2.6.15 and v2.6.16. As an alternate solution, you may try the patches available at http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/8139 against v2.6.15, starting from 0001 and going to 0006 (of course you can revert the patches against v2.6.16 from 0006 to 0001 too). I can't claim that each step will compile though. [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html -- Ueimor