Also, I forgot to tell:

 The laptop is running OpenBSD 4.7

 Regards,

  Alvaro

Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
>  I have a laptop connected to the Internet trough a cable modem plugged
> in to a usb port (cdce). For some unknown reason I receive in the logs
> this message:
> 
>    cdce0: usb error on rx: IOERROR
>    cdce0: usb error on tx: IOERROR
>    cdce0: too many errors, disabling
> 
>  After that the internet connection goes down and the only way to go
> back to normal is rebooting the laptop (not the cable modem).
> 
>  I tried to down the device with ifconfig and then go back to up. Does
> not work.
> 
>  Is there any way to enable the cdce device again from ksh? Why is this
> happening?
> 
>  Regards,
> 
>  Alvaro