bn wrote:
> Ehm, no, it disconnects randomly every about ~5 minutes, and then comes
> back.
>
Most network problems can be traced to the cable or connectors. Have you
tried
a different cable?
> Well, yes, this "brute force" approach could theoretically help, but if
> there's any chance of narrowing down this I'd be happy. I don't exactly
> have the time to recompile 7 kernel versions and try until I find the
> golden one.
>
I have a similar chipset in this desktop:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E
Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 00ba
It's worked perfectly with the sky2 driver in all kernel versions since
goodness knows
what. It certainly worked with all of the 2.6.31 releases. It's
currently on gentoo-sources 2.6.32-r1.
Be lucky,
Neil
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