Subject: Re: rtl8139: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

From: Marcus Better <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:17:10 +0200

Thomas Hellström wrote:
>>> Does the "noirqdebug" option fix the problem?

>> Yes... but it breaks switching to a text console.

> Are you _sure_ these are related?

Yes. (I tried a few times and it always crashed, whereas without
noirqdebug I've switched mode successfully hundreds of times.)

Without the i915 module both network and console switching work.

Marcus