Solved: xl0: watchdog timeout with 2.9 and 3c905C-TX-M

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn_(_at_)_comm_(_dot_)_uni-bremen_(_dot_)_de>]

Hi,

The NIC is working now. First i disabled the onboard sound which moved 
the NIC's IRQ from 5 to 9 -- still no luck.
Then i swapped the NIC with the PCI-VGA Card. IRQ is still 9 but it 
works now! Strange!
Also, the install kernel ran without problem as did the linux kernel.

Thanks to all who helped and i'll take a closer look into the archives 
next time. I did a google search and it revealed only some rather old 
posts which dealt with older kernels.

Idar Tollefsen wrote:

> > > I have installed OpenBSD 2.9 on a 1.3GHz Athlon machine today. The
> > > install went without problems.
> > > But after reboot i keep getting "xl0: watchfog timeout" messages on the
> > > console and the machine has no connectivity.
> > > Since i did the install over the network from anf ftp server, the NIC
> > > can't be the problem.
>
> > http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0107/msg01112.html 
>
> Try this and just follow the thread with "next in thread":
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-tech&m=99489555607793&w=2
>
>
> - IT