I fixed my problem. I had to add "acpi=off noapic nolapic" to my Grub boot menu.
Thanks! Bryan Walton > Hi everybody, > I have a new Sager np4750 laptop that has a Realtek gigabit ethernet > card that uses the r8169 driver in the kernel. On doing the amd64 > install, Debian identified the card without problem. I can load the > module and bring up the eth0 network interface. However, I can't pass > any traffic, either by DNS or by IP address (I can't even ping my > gateway). I get an error message "Netdev Watchdog: eth0: transmit > timed out". I have tried building a new stock kernel (2.6.14) but the > result wasn't any different. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]