Comments inserted. On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:07:35 -0500, 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. I was pretty sure it wasn't NM. You guys are too good for that. ;) > > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetworkManager-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
