Hi Skylar, On Sat, Dec 25 2004, Skylar Thompson wrote: > Skylar Thompson wrote: > > >Norbert Gruener wrote: > > > >>It's kernel 2.4.27 which is part of Sarge. > >> > >> > >Weird. A friend of mine has a Dell laptop with a Broadcom 4400 running > >Debian Woody with the v2.4. I'll see if I can take a look at the boot > >sequence when she's in town next week, and let you know what I see. I > >don't remember seeing it, but I've never looked for it either. > > > > I got a hold of the laptop, and noticed that error too. I upgraded it to > v2.6, and still saw the error. It looks like it might be an issue with > the NETDEV WATCHDOG (which I'm guessing reacts to state changes in the > NIC). The state for the NIC when the driver is initially loaded is set > to down, and it takes a few seconds for the watchdog to switch the state > to up.
thank you for your effort. I really appreciated your help. I think I got a feeling what is going wrong. So I will do some more testing. Thank you very much, Norbert -- Ceterum censeo | PGP encrypted mail preferred. Redmond esse delendam. | PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
