sk0: watchdog timeout

Vladimir Dvorak dvorakv at vdsoft.org
Sun Nov 27 11:37:00 GMT 2005


Hans Nieser wrote:

> Nicolas Blais wrote:
>
>> On November 26, 2005 09:15 am, Hans Nieser wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> A long, long time ago Vladimir Dvorak wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have a problem with network card. From time to time kernel says
>>>>
>>>> sk0: watchdog timeout
>>>>     
>>>
>>> I just ran into the same issue. I have an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe in my
>>> desktop machine which runs FreeBSD 6.0+Xorg+Gnome. It has two on-board
>>> NICs, the nvidia one and a Marvel one. The nvidia was one big
>>> disaster and
>>> was giving me device timeouts so I never bothered with that one again.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I have an sk0 too on one of my computer's onboard A8V-DX which will
>> timeout once in a while too.  I found a way to reduce down time by
>> modifying my rc.conf to force 'full-duplex 100Mbps'.  Now, even when
>> it goes into a watchdog timeout, I quickly get back my link within
>> that second.
>>
>> This is what my rc.conf line looks like:
>>
>> ifconfig_sk0="inet 192.168.1.100 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
>> netmask 255.255.255.0"
>>  
>>
I found some other solution here:
    http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/if_sk.html

There is recommended to "use correct on-chip RAM size":

6. use correct on-chip RAM size; committed to HEAD
<http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2004-November/035293.html>

Can some of you know how ?

Thank you.

Vladimir Dvorak



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