Did you try the latest driver from Fujitsu? My experience is that the latest driver from RealTek doesn't always play nice.
You are correct in your assessment that RealTek ethernet controllers are of inferior quality. Cards with Intel and Broadcom controllers cost more, and this is a situation where you get what you pay for. pierre.camill...@fosterclark.com wrote: > Hi all > > I thought of posting this here just in case someone has encountered this > issue before. We have a number of Fujitsu R570 workstations with onboard > RealTek NICs. These are RTL 8168DP/8111DP Family PCI-E GBE type. We've > been having intermittent issues with some of them. Sometimes they > initialise, sometimes they don't. Meaning that when powering up the > workstation and logging into Windows XP we get no network connectivity. > When powering down the workstations and powering them up again after > some time then the issue gets resolved. We also tried forcing the > network speed on our HP switch and the NIC card i.e. we set them to 100 > FDx. > We're finding these issues very strange. By any chance does high humidty > affect NICs? We've noted that Fujitsu in the past used to use Broadcom > for their on-board NICs. Now it seems they're using Realtek. I think > that Realtek are inferior in quality. > Would appreciate any comments on this. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
