Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-21 Thread Chuck Munro
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:54:33 -0700 From: John R Piercepie...@hogranch.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card To:centos@centos.org Message-ID:4fe20e59.20...@hogranch.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 06/20/12 8:44 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote

[CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, Most of the time I am over my head in trying to troubleshoot problems. However, after reading manuals, man pages, and getting advice from this list I have been able to work my way through difficulties, and at the end, I usually have a better understanding of what 'is going on'. I can

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. The failure is characterized by dropping its

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. The failure is characterized by dropping its

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread John Hinton
On 6/20/2012 10:27 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. The

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
Greg, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. The symptoms are the same

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
John Hinton wrote: On 6/20/2012 10:27 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install snip If you are having to fully 'cold boot' the system

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
snip Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. The symptoms are the same with the second card. snip Several questions: do you

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. The failure is characterized by dropping its

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
Greg, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. The symptoms are the same with the second card.

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. The symptoms are the same with the second card. snip Ah,

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. The symptoms are the same with

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread John Hinton
On 6/20/2012 11:13 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. The

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. The symptoms are the same with

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 6/20/2012 11:13 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: snip I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. The

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Beattie
On 6/20/2012 9:34 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. Try moving the network card to a new

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Bob Hoffman
On 6/20/2012 11:09 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: That's interesting. Here are the log entries for the previous card as well as the eth4 that is currently installed. # PCI device 0x10ec:0x8168 (r8169) SUBSYSTEM==net, ACTION==add, DRIVERS==?*, ATTR{address}==00:e0:b3:10:f6:81, ATTR{type}==1,

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/20/12 8:44 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev ff) pure unmitigated junk. -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Chris Beattie cbeat...@geninfo.com wrote: On 6/20/2012 9:34 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit card.  After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install and naming it 'eth4' it works

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/20/12 11:17 AM, Dale Dellutri wrote: Or it could mean that the PCI-e slots are not providing enough power for this card, or the slots are specialized to run only certain types of cards. What motherboard does the OP have? more likely, it means once again Fry's is selling junk that

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 06/20/12 11:17 AM, Dale Dellutri wrote: Or it could mean that the PCI-e slots are not providing enough power for this card, or the slots are specialized to run only certain types of cards. What motherboard does the OP have? more likely, it means once again Fry's is selling junk that

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/20/12 12:21 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I am being persuaded that you are right. I'll have to look at the mother board to answer Dale's question; the machine and the nic card came from Fry's. I have had pretty good luck with Fry's in the past, but this has turned out to be a real pain.

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: On 06/20/12 12:21 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I am being persuaded that you are right. I'll have to look at the mother board to answer Dale's question; the machine and the nic card came from Fry's. I have had pretty good luck with Fry's in the past, but this has turned