hi, have detected a weird problem on my box with realtec 8139. let me start :
have tried the follwing situations : first at all I made an install like absolutly new PC. had installed a 3Com3c905x as a eth0 and a realtec 8139too as a eth1 eth0 first got the ipadress 10.0.0.10 for a connection to my adsl-modem from alcatel, realtec as a eth1 got the ipadress 192.168.10.15 for hosting as an internal network-host. every 20 to 30 hours my machine stucks again and again. got a lot of this message here : probable hardwarebug: clock timer configutation lost - probably a VIA686a motherboard.d:0 probably hardware bug: restoring chip configuration now I've tried the other situation : installed again on the same new PC, but made a change of eth0 eth1 so now eth0 was 10.0.0.10 and eth1 was now 192.168.10.15 now I had a connection to internet, but NOT to the slave-host with 192.168.10.5 but a ping to 192.168.10.15 was okay. the hardwareclock-bug-messages disappears, mdk was running WITHOUT stucks after 20 oder more hours. tried a new one situation - installing again from scratch - without 3Com-card the internetconnecton was okay - the machine had ip 10.0.0.10 the machine was running fine without stucks, changing again - now with 3Com and NO realtec - was also fine tried again both - the realtec and 3Com - the weirdness starts again. Now I have 2 3Coms - and NO problems - seems to me, that realtec is not a good choice in combination with 3Com - ON MY HARDWARE. I don't know, which behavior I would have with another PC-Hardware. and am sorry about, that I cannot made a test with 2 realtecs, I don't have 2 realtecs. Is anyone there, which have detected such problems like this one ? On the motherboard I couldn't change the IRQ's because have only the possibility to change from PCI to ISA - not more. tried also to change the Slotplaces, so I had onetime IRQ 5 to realtec and 9 to 3Com the 2nd time I had 5 to 3Com and 9 to realtec. IRQ 9 to realtec produces the weird hardwareproblems. during this testphase I was missing a tool in mdk 8.0 that I can change the configuration of eth0 and eth1 from ip-1 to ip-2 a littlebit easier. think that some routingerrors was also a result of these missing tools, but am not sure about. all this test takes me a long time now for about 2 or 3 days. and the onlyone result for me is, with realtec I have a lot of problems. would be very interested of about your experiences about such problems - are there some experiences in this list ? bye hans schneidhofer
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