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! > [ 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. HTH, --Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
