em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting

[Wesley Morgan]

On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Michiel Boland wrote:

> Hi. I frequently get
>
> em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
>
> messages, followed by loss of network at the most inopportune moments.
>
> It appears that it can be triggered by things like typing 'portinstall 
> mozilla' over an SSH connection. But that is just a hunch.
>
> Any ideas how to debug this further?
>
> Hardware is a dell optiplex GX270. Kernel is -CURRENT from 29 june.

I have the same issue on my laptop. It seems like the problem came into 
being a few months ago, but I've never gone any further than trying to 
revert to a previous version of the driver, which did not help.

For me, the problem is more than just loss of network, but rather every
application hanging while multiple timeouts occurr.

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