Arun, On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 19 Dec 2008, Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) wrote: > >> This on-board gigabit ether net gives strange problem. It works most >> of the times but at times it does not work. > > Realtek? I have saved one PCI Realtek NIC - the driver loads, no > hardware complaints, link LED says everything is hunky dory but no > traffic goes thru!
This is on-board the MoBo. >> [ 205.229306] r8169: eth0: link up >> [ 677.674793] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out >> [ 678.489221] r8169: eth0: link up >> >> >> lspci: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. >> RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev ff) > > Is r8169 the correct driver for the 8111 chip? Pls. check Realtek's > site and confirm. I have a mobo with 8101E chip and all Linux distros > install the r8169 module. It worked sort of crippled (huge packet > losses) until I visited Realtek's site and downloaded the proper driver > for the 8101E, compiled the module and the NIC now works fine. It works some times and some times to make it work I have to pass pci=routeirq kernel param. The behavior is not consistent. > HTH, > --Arun Khan Thanks for your hint. I will see if the issue gets resolved after I get driver from Raltek site. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Rita Rudner - "I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight." _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
