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Subject: Re: sk0: watchdog timeout
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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"
>  
>
Thanks! Will give this a try