Gigabits, watchdog timeouts and downtime, oh my!

[Brad Waite]

Doug White wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Brad Waite wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hey all,
>>
>>Decided to move into the Gigabit world yesterday and picked up a SMC
>>9452TX for my 4.10-STABLE box.  I rebuilt the kernel with the sk device
>>and while it works somewhat, I'm getting 'sk0: watchdog timeout' errors
>>and the card goes down for a few seconds before waking back up.  This
>>happens under relatively light traffic, too.
> 
> 
> Sounds like autoneg flaking out; try a different cable?
> 

No I didn't, but I did enable "PCI IRQs to IO-APIC mapping" in my BIOS. 
  Everything works like a champ now.  Woot!

Thanks, for the suggestion, though.

Brad