Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?

[Frank de Lange]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:47:00PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Are you judging based on the error message?  The 'netdev watchdog ...'
> message is a generic error message that could have any number of
> causes.  It's just saying, well, what it says :)  The kernel was unable
> to transmit a packet in a certain amount of time.  You might get these
> messages if you unplug a cable suddenly, or if your hardware isn't
> delivering interrupts, or many other things...

No, I'm judging based on the fact that I found reports from people using
NE2K-PCI with several cards as well as tulip-based cards (different driver) on
abit BP6 as well as Gigabyte motherboards, mostly on 2.3.x/2.4.x kernels. I
found some postings with these problems on 2.2.x kernels.

Cheers//Frank
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