rl0: watchdog timeout

[Joshua Lokken]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:08:24 +0300, Andrew <gtsy at mail.ru> wrote:
> Good day!
> 
> I know, this question is famous, but i can't handle it myself.
> The problem is: After some time my realtek card becomes 
> unresponsible. It happens because of buffer overflow. I tried
> ping -f xxx. 15 seconds later, the kernel says that 
> rl0: watchdog timeout. 
> I can't send files more then 100MB via network. This problem
> is because of my PC configuration - Motherboard GB K8N, 
> chipset nforce 3. Unfortunately, even FreeBSD 5.3 can't handle 
> it (but it's better then 5.2.1). Maybe someone has already met 
> this problem?

Looking around Google a bit, it looks like many people have been
able to get the timeouts to go away by disabling PnP OS in the
BIOS.  Do you have that set to Yes?  If so, try disabling it, and 
see if it helps any.

-- 
Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate