Could the system have old firmware on that NIC? Does your vendor provide firmware updates which could be installed? Without looking into the problem, I wonder if it's a driver/firmware interaction issue.
/Brian/ On Feb 13, 2012, at 9:11 AM, daryl herzmann wrote: > Greetings all, > > I recently (~ 1 Jan) installed RHEL6 64bit on a system that has a: > > Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection > > which uses the e1000e module. Anyway, I've had nothing but trouble since. > The network device becomes unresponsive after some seemingly random amount of > time and a reboot is necessary to get it back functioning (reloading the > module does not seem to help). I filed this issue in bugzilla here: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782586 > > The standard error that comes to the console is: > > Jan 17 12:38:46 xxx kernel: WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:261 > dev_watchdog+0x26d/0x280() (Not tainted) > Jan 17 12:38:46 xxx kernel: Hardware name: X9SCL/X9SCM > Jan 17 12:38:46 xxx kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (e1000e): transmit queu > e 0 timed out > > This system is fully updated RHEL6.2. Anybody seem this before / have ideas > on what to try to make it stop! :) > > thanks, > daryl > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
