Xen users - Dec 2005 - RE: "netdev watchdog" error and non-working sis900 networkcard - solution

> when installing xen 3.0  I had trouble to get networking 
> going - it worked perfectly on the same machinwith the 
> non-xen kKernel. But with the xen Kernel (self-compiled, to 
> get support for my sis900 network
> chipset) ran, I got
> lots of error messages with something like "netdev 
> watchdog..."  in it, followed by my network card not working 
> on the xen dom0 privileged system.
> 
> I also tried the demo cd, same thing.
> 
> The troubles went away when adding kernel options "noapic 
> acpi=off" to the modules grub line.
Any chance you could post the diff between the output of a native kernel
boot vs a xen one?

Thanks,
Ian 

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Hi,

Ian Pratt wrote:
>> when installing xen 3.0  I had trouble to get networking 
>> going - it worked perfectly on the same machinwith the 
>> non-xen kKernel. But with the xen Kernel (self-compiled, to 
>> get support for my sis900 network
>> chipset) ran, I got
>> lots of error messages with something like "netdev 
>> watchdog..."  in it, followed by my network card not working 
>> on the xen dom0 privileged system.
>>
>> I also tried the demo cd, same thing.
>>
>> The troubles went away when adding kernel options "noapic 
>> acpi=off" to the modules grub line.
>>     
>
> Any chance you could post the diff between the output of a native kernel
> boot vs a xen one?
>   
I have 3 dmesg outputs now - one from an unchanged Debian 2.6.8 Kernel 
without xen, one from a xen Kernel with "acpi=off", where networking 
works after boot, and one without acpi=off, with broken networking.

Which diffs between which of these files do you want, or should I send 
you the whole files?

Henning


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