Comments on: NETDEV WATCHDOG transmit timed out, Realtek 8139

By: pavel

pavel — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:18:09 +0000

I have this problem, (same deriver and error ) if I make sleepy my windows in dualboot. (openSUSE 11.0)

By: glen

glen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:51:13 +0000

The problem still exists in 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 … note this is gentoo, Serg.

For me, pci=noacpi doesn’t help. Nor did disabling anything WOL-related from the Windows driver advanced config.

But pulling the power cable (20 seconds or so) before booting linux repeatably works, while booting linux after Windows without pulling power repeatably doesn’t.

I haven’t yet bothered to rollback the windows driver. Nor have I tracked down how to turn off WOL in linux yet.

If, as some claim, their version of the kernel fixes this issue, it would be nice to get the exact kernel version, or better, the version (or patch) of the 8139 driver their kernel sources include.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:19:50 +0000

As ridiculous as it sounds, unplugging worked for me. Probably is the cruder way to make it work, just like wake onn lan. It is definitely related to wake on lan issues.

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:04:50 +0000

WOL worked for me, too.

By: Nikiton

Nikiton — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:44:05 +0000

Thank you VERY MACH!!!!!!!
Option pci=noacpi in grub.conf HELPS ME TOO!!!

By: ivanatora

ivanatora — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:35:17 +0000

Just to mention – the problem is not Windows specific. It is *Linux* specific. I have FreeBSD installed, and it doesn’t have troubles after restarts. BUT once I reboot from FreeBSD back to Linux and the problem is just there. So it doesn’t matter what OS are you dual booting – it’s faulty Linux driver. And no, the problem is NOT YET fixed into the kernel source tree.

By: T.G.A

T.G.A — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:05:22 +0000

Thanx a lot. Switching to another driver helped!

By: Jorj

Jorj — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:50:25 +0000

Please HELP – I NOT use windows – help my – how i setting WAKE-ON-LAN under linux?

By: Serg

Serg — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:42:07 +0000

You should be using a decent Linux distribution. I had the same experience with RedHat and Windows XP which required a cold restart to get RedHat working properly. Although Gentoo did not have any problems at all. Do not blame Windows if the Linux is to blame.

By: Leo

Leo — Sat, 17 May 2008 18:44:56 +0000

WHOOOHO!!! WAKE-ON-LAN Worked for me!!
Thank you !
but i wonder, why isn’t the linux driver enable this feature just like windows does?