sk0: watchdog timeout

[Nicolas Blais]

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"

Nicolas.
-- 
FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Nov 19 12:36:29 EST 2005     
root at clk01a:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLK01A 
PGP? (updated 16 Nov 05) : http://www.clkroot.net/security/nb_root.asc
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20051126/494fdea7/attachment.bin