I am writing this message partly in case others are having the same problem.
If I leave my Dell Latitude D600 laptop with Dell 1450 wireless card idle for a while, usually at least a couple of hours, I will start to get this message repeated over and over in /var/log/messages "NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out." There are no other messages that are obviously related and nothing else is logged between the netdev messages. When this happens my keyboard is dead and I am lucky if I can shutdown my computer using the mouse to select shutdown (or anything else for that matter.) According to this thread network manager may be involved http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/15/296 . Either way my work around is to disable wireless through the nm-applet left click menu. Fn-f2 to disable the radio is not enough to stop the problem from happening. Since disabling wireless through nm stops the problem seems to indicate that nm is in some way at least a catalyst for the problem. Thanks, David _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list