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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:29:19 -0700
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: netdev watchdog
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On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:21:30 -0700 Shaun Jackman wrote:

| Upon booting my system, the boot fails and the following message is
| displayed repeatedly:
| 
| NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
| eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status eb01.
| diagnostics: net 0cfa media 88c0 dma 0000003a fifo 0000
| eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device?
| Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 65(1) current 65(1)
| Transmit list 00000000 vs d0c782a0
| 0: @d0c78200 length 8000002e status 8001002e
| ...
| 
| I also see the same message for eth2. I'd been happily booting this
| 2.6.8.1 kernel for months without trouble. I don't know where this is
| coming from. The drivers for my three NICs are forcedeth, 3c59x, and
| 8139too. I'd be happy to give more information to help.
| 
| Please cc me in your reply. Cheers,
| Shaun

Please see the REPORTING-BUGS file for what info to include
in a bug report.  There's just too much info missing from
this one.

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~Randy