[vortex] 3c905 Boomerang - kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

[Ian Marr]

Bogdan,

Fedora Core 2 Kernel is v2.6.5-1.358.

Disabling kudzu ('chkconfig kudzu off') has allowed the network interface to
work - so I am now happily running up2date.

Thank you very much.


Ian. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bogdan Costescu [mailto:bogdan.costescu at iwr.uni-heidelberg.de]
> Sent: 26 August 2004 19:34
> To: Ian Marr
> Cc: vortex at scyld.com
> Subject: Re: [vortex] 3c905 Boomerang - kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0:
> transmit timed out
> 
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Ian Marr wrote:
> 
> > I have just installed Fedora Core 2 on an old 300-Mhz Gateway PC but the
> > network is not working.
> 
> You don't specify what kernel version you use (as in original FC2 or
> updates) and I was too busy and lost track of this. IIRC, kudzu from
> Fedora did not play nice with the 3c59x driver, trying to get some
> data that needed hardware access while the hardware was still in sleep
> state.  Some cards were disturbed by this and did not function
> afterward; some others (like Tornado/905C) were not disturbed. Alan
> Cox submitted a fix at some point, but, as I have lost track of the
> issue, I don't know if it actually fixed the problem.
> 
> So, my suggestion is to disable kudzu ('chkconfig kudzu off') then
> reboot. If the network starts functioning, then you had this problem.
> An update of the kernel and/or kudzu (if available) might provide the
> fix and will allow using the network while still keeping kudzu on.
> 
> --
> Bogdan Costescu
> 
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