I recently switched my gentoo box on and was unable to access the network. I was unable to fix the problem until I rebooted. I discovered the following in my /var/log/messages. What does it mean?
Apr 26 22:29:29 basement NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Apr 26 22:29:29 basement eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0d 0000 c07f media 10. Apr 26 22:29:29 basement eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0. Apr 26 22:29:29 basement eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 0008003c. (queue head) Apr 26 22:29:29 basement eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 0008003c. Apr 26 22:29:29 basement eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 0008003c. Apr 26 22:29:29 basement eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 0008003c. Apr 26 22:29:29 basement eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 Apr 26 22:29:41 basement NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out My gentoo machine is an unattended server and I am concerned that this might happen at an inpooprtune time. I have recently upgraded to gentoo-sources-2.6.11-gentoo-r6. The relevant output of lspci (if this is of any help) is: 0000:01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) -- [email protected] mailing list
