From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG][2.6.5 final][e100/ee100pro] NETDEV_WATCHDOG Timeout -Related
 to i2c interface?
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 17:01:58 -0400
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Shawn Starr wrote:
> Ok, this is strange, I put in an external 10/100 PRO S Adaptor, and im not
> getting anymore eth0 timeouts, I would only get eth0 timeouts on the ONBOARD
> nic if I enabled the lm80 sensor driver.. I don't know what to say, the
> onboard nic would work fine without lm80 being loaded?
> 
> Is there some sort of race condition that the onboard 10/100 PRO is doing ?

If i2c is killing the network, sounds like it's diddling something on 
the motherboard it shouldn't...

	Jeff