Steve, I've got
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) in my Asus A6Kt laptop. My problems with that card began in FC5 when RedHat introduced kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5. I opend a case 202917 with RH Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202917 With that kernel I could not connect to Solaris 9 box running SunSSH. I could not view https pages from Apache on Solaris 9 etc... I uploaded and attached to the case tcpdump log files from both linux and solaris boxes [the error was lost tcp segment]. I tried to fix the problem by installing the previous workable kernel, but it's gone from repository... I could not spend much time with debugging the problem, so I tried CentOS. My NIC was working again, but I was not very happy with CentOS [just personal feelings]; tried FC6, but that "bug" introduced in that kernel happily migrated to FC6 [may be not many people have this networking card and complaining about it]. RH happilly closed the case: I can not blame them -- they probably do not have such hardware and I can not provide them with new information as I need a working computer and I can not use FC5 anymore [all previous kernel gone]. At this time I found SL4.4 - tried, was very happy with it [and my NIC problems gone]. But... RH introduced RHEL5, based on FC6. SL made SL5. I tried it [without thinking that it is probably the same kernel as in FC6]. And my old problems came back: cannot ssh to Solaris 9 with SunSSH [btw I can ssh to Solaris 10 with SunSSH] and I can use web interface to Interwoven TeamSite [as http is disabled and https does not work]. What I've found in SL50 is the content of r1000: rpm -ql r1000 /usr/share/doc/r1000-1.05 /usr/share/doc/r1000-1.05/README /usr/share/doc/r1000-1.05/release_note.txt no kernel modules, just some docs. Because r1000 is a part of official kernel now which have problems... Do you want to open a case with RH? But you are not using RHEL, but SL instead... Do we have a bugzilla in SL? Thanks Alex PS My another problem with RH kernel -- they dropped support for ufs [and I have Solaris 10 on one of my partitions. I can mount ext2fs in Solaris, but not ufs in Linux anymore...] but it's different story... Quoting Steve Gaarder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I just installed SL for the first time on an Intel Core Duo box with an > MSI G965M-FIR motherboard. This board has a Realtek RTL-8169SC network > inteface that uses the r1000 driver. Pings show a bizarre pattern. If I > ping every 10 seconds, the turnaround time gradually increases with each > ping until it hits about 2 seconds, at which point it drops back to a low > value and starts climbing again. If I ping every second, I see the > increasing behavior also, with every other ping taking an extra second. > > Any clues? > > Steve Gaarder > System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics > Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
