It is maybe the same bug I had found in Debian (Squeeze) and Ubuntu. The driver was so buggy that eventually my laptop could freeze during long downloads. I think the bug is fixed in Debian (testing).
Installing the latest linux drivers from the Realtek website appears to fix the problem (I have not tried with SL, because I do not have SL in that laptop). On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Steve Gaarder <[email protected]> wrote: > (If there's another way to report bugs, please let me know and accept my > apologies for cluttering the list) > > SL5 has a bug in the driver for the Realtek RTL8169sc/8110sc ethernet cards, > presumably inherited from RedHat. Basically, the most recent versions of > this driver, such as that in 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5, write the MAC address back > to the card at shutdown, but do it badly, zeroing out the leading 4 bytes of > the address. This changes the card's address until the next power-cycle. A > bug report has been filed for Fedora, number 573201, but I don't see one for > RHEL. > > thanks, > > Steve Gaarder > System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics > Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA > [email protected] > -- Edelmiro Moman, PhD Campus Limpertsberg, BRB 1.11B Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) 162a avenue de la Faïencerie L-1511 Luxembourg Phone : +352 46-66-44-6117 E-mail : Eldemiro.Moman at uni.lu http://wwwen.uni.lu/lcsb http://www.edelmiromoman.eu/
