probs with DFE-580 TX

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On 4/15/05, Frank Sander <FrankSanderDo at vodafone.de> wrote:
> kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp on a pentium 4 HT board with MEGAraid controler.
> DFE-580TX 4 port ethernet gives me every few seconds
> 
> Apr 15 12:01:33 greystar01 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> Apr 15 12:01:33 greystar01 kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, TxStatus 00
> TxFrameId 02, resetting...
> 
> and resets the port.
> The Card is transfering Data but with the reset I always get the
> transfer down for a few seconds.

That sounds like *exactly* the same problem I'm currently having with
my Broadcom Ethernet card in FC4test2
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154512) -- also
a Pentium 4 HT processor. In test1, I was able to make it go away by
adding "acpi=off" to the command line in Grub; maybe that will work
for you with your card too.

MEF

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