On 12/17/06, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 12:12 -0700, David R Mulligan wrote: > > 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 > > That particular issue is a softmac locking problem, and not related to > NetworkManager, though NM will cause the problem to happen more often. > The real problem is that the softmac stack (which the driver for your > card appears to use) can't correctly handle two different programs > asking it for information at the same time. There were a few driver > patches posted that could resolve the issue. > > Dan > > > 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
Since you are running Ubuntu I would post a bug on launchpad for your kernel version and if you can find some of the proposed patches include a link in the bug report. I think this is something that they would certainly want to be resolved at least for Feisty. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
