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Date:      Thu, 01 Apr 1999 15:50:45 -0800
From:      Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>
To:        jbarbee@singular.com (John Barbee), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pn0: watchdog timeout
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990401154810.00c494e0@mail-r>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990401135446.00a21c00@server7.singular.com>

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At 02:02 PM 4/1/99 , John Barbee wrote:
>     Apr  1 13:19:35 nupharm-f /kernel: pn0: watchdog timeout
>  Apr  1 13:28:43 nupharm-f /kernel: pn0: watchdog timeout
>  Apr  1 13:29:09 nupharm-f /kernel: pn0: watchdog timeout
>  Apr  1 13:29:58 nupharm-f last message repeated 3 times
>
>I suppose this means that something within the OS didn't pay enough attention
>to the card and since the machine didn't restart that also probably means the
>reset switch is not hooked up.

Nothing like that in the manpage...

% man 4 pn
NAME
     pn - Lite-On 82c168/82c169 PNIC fast ethernet device driver
...
DIAGNOSTICS
...
     pn%d: watchdog timeout  The device has stopped responding to the network,
     or there is a problem with the network connection (cable).
...

>But anyway, how do I prevent this from happening or disable the watchdog
>feature?

Fix the problem.

BTW, if you search the mailing list archives, there was a person with this
same problem/question a few months ago.

--Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441


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