On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Patrick Welche wrote:

> Can anyone suggest why an ethernet card should give device timeout
> errors when apparently not doing anything? (As far as I know there are
> no keep-alive packets flying around on this bit of network...)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>  Patrick
> 

In my experience device timeout usually means that the card is on a
different IRQ than what it is set to in your kernel.
Of course, this is assuming that you're using the i386 port and that the
ethernet card *never* works.

HTH,
Scott