Gigabits, watchdog timeouts and downtime, oh my!

[Doug White]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Brad Waite wrote:

> >>Decided to move into the Gigabit world yesterday and picked up a SMC
> >>9452TX for my 4.10-STABLE box.  I rebuilt the kernel with the sk device
> >>and while it works somewhat, I'm getting 'sk0: watchdog timeout' errors
> >>and the card goes down for a few seconds before waking back up.  This
> >>happens under relatively light traffic, too.
> >
> >
> > Sounds like autoneg flaking out; try a different cable?
> >
>
> No I didn't, but I did enable "PCI IRQs to IO-APIC mapping" in my BIOS.
>   Everything works like a champ now.  Woot!

Wierd. What brand/model of system or motherboard do you have? It seems odd
that theres even a toggle for that.

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