From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 31 17:18:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from crotchety.newsbastards.org (netcop.newsbastards.org [193.162.153.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1972537B6A4; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:18:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by crotchety.newsbastards.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f111I8e38690; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 02:18:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from meowbot@free-pr0n.netscum.dk) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 02:18:08 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200102010118.f111I8e38690@crotchety.newsbastards.org> X-Authentication-Warning: crotchety.newsbastards.org: news set sender to meowbot@free-pr0n.netscum.dk using -f From: Reddy Crashalott To: reel@idemnia.ath.cx Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: watchdog bugging us. References: In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [disclaimer: this is an invalid sender and return address; replies should be posted to the list or perhaps better not posted at all, finally i am rid of that cursed e-mail reachability, free at last] :: When i do tail -f /var/log/messages, it gives me this. :: :: Jan 31 15:03:49 beta /kernel: xl0: watchdog timeout :: Jan 31 15:04:24 beta last message repeated 6 times I've seen this on questionable HP NetSwerver hardware, that you may be able to solve by either trying your xl ethernet card in a different PCI slot, or in your BIOS doing something about the IRQs. By doing the latter, I got things to work without problems, while otherwise things were unacceptably bad or stopped working totally after a short time, depending on which of several flavours of NICs I was using. barry bouwsma (no e-mail yet), formerly of tdc a/s danmark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message