On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 11:03 -0500, Anthony Messina wrote: > Patrick wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I recently updated to kernel 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5 on my FC5 laptop. Not > > sure if it's related but now networking stops working intermittently. > > The driver used is tg3 for a Broadcom BCM5789 nic. In /var/log/messages > > I see: > > > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > > tg3: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting > > tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=2c00 enable_bit=2 > > tg3: eth0: Link is down. > > tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex. > > tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX. > > > > Doing a $sudo /sbin/service network restart immediately solves the > > problem. I only see this happen with the download of the FC5 Unity DVD > > torrent. Not with small fish like surfing or getting my mail from an > > imap server on the LAN. Has anyone seen something similar? Any > > suggestions how I can pinpoint/fix this? > > > > i had/have what sounds to be exactly the same problem. see my post from > april: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-April/msg04485.html > > the problem seems to come and go. i never found a solution and no one > else seemed to be able to offer any advice at the time. Yikes that does not sound very encouraging. Are you aware of an FC5 kernel where this problem does not happen (assuming it's related to the tg3 module)? Thanks, Patrick
