I think I've hit a wierd lockup in the forcedeth (Nvidia onboard lan chipset) driver on 2.6.9-gentoo-r9. When the failure occurs the network just dies with loads of:
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out nv_stop_tx: TransmitterStatus remained busy<7>eth0: tx_timeout: dead entries! Rebooting doesn't solve the problem although the driver will sit there and accumulate a load of IRQ's achieving nothing: eth0: nv_nic_irq eth0: irq: 00000020 eth0: irq: 00000000 eth0: nv_nic_irq completed Even shutting down and "powering off" doesn't clear the condition. However if you remove the power from the box and wait a bit and restart it comes back too life. I'm 50/50 on if this is failing hardware or just that without physically removing power the chip doesn't get fully reset. I have copious diagnostic traces since I #if 1'd the dprintk but before I flood lkml with traces. * Has anyone else seen this problem? * Could it be a reset problem? * Should you be able to fully reset the chip with ethtool/mii-tool? Please cc me as I'm no longer subscribed to the email torrent that is lkml :-) -- Alex http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/