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 :-)
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