Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 169257
nForce ethernet driver forcedeth sometimes stops working
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:14 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Fedora/1.0.6-1.2.fc3 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: The FC3 kernel is affected by an annoying bug, fix is available upstream already. Please include it in the next kernel release. The symptoms are: - problem occurs on mainboards with the nForce4 chipset - after some time the NIC suddenly stops working - this message appears in the log repeatedly: nv_stop_tx: TransmitterStatus remained busy<7>eth0: tx_timeout:dead entries! - reboot does not help, power must be switched off to make the NIC working again. More information about the problem and the fix can be found here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4552 Bug 167674 concerning RHEL3 is similar to this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: No special steps, just check if the LAN interface on a mainboard with the nForce4 mainboard is still working. In my case it locks up about once a day. Additional info:
I clicked twice on the sumbit button, this is dup of the #169256. Sorry. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169256 ***