On Friday 19 Dec 2008, Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) wrote:

> This is on-board the MoBo.
>

I does not matter whether the NIC is onboard or a physically separate 
card.

> >> 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

>
> It works some times and some times to make it work I have to pass
> pci=routeirq kernel param.
>
> The behavior is not consistent.

It could be flacky hardware or the r8169 is not quite the "correct" 
driver for the NIC.

Let us know what you find out from your investigation.

-- Arun Khan


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