MSI issues w/ Athlon64 X2 3800+ and nForce 430?

Ian FREISLICH ianf at clue.co.za
Mon Apr 23 10:55:11 UTC 2007


"Jack Vogel" wrote:
> > Apr 21 22:13:09 carbon kernel: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> > Apr 21 22:13:09 carbon kernel: em0: link state changed to DOWN
> > Apr 21 22:13:12 carbon kernel: em0: link state changed to UP
> > Apr 21 22:14:19 carbon kernel: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> > Apr 21 22:14:19 carbon kernel: em0: link state changed to DOWN
> >
> > Which ends up making things a bit difficult to pass usable traffic over
> > the interface.
> 
> That NIC is too old to use with MSI, anything not PCI Express is not
> going to work reliably, even if at this point you arent stopped from
> trying to set it, with changes to the driver forthcoming you will be.

Is that PCI Express only or PCI-X as well?

Ian

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