-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have an asus a8v that is running a recent install of SL5.1 X86_64 (an athlon X2 3800+). It has two gigabit ethernet cards which are both served by the skge driver. This system ran flawlessly under SL4.5. Now the first adapter (the onboard one) stops working after a while (not clear how frequent but maybe ~1 hr.). The driver reports that the adapter link is not up when you try an ifdown/ifup cycle. Ifdown'ing both and removing and reinstalling the driver then ifup'ing both does not fix the situation. After running for a while the log has a bunch of NET WATCH errors about the adapter (what is Net Watch?). It appears that rebooting does restore the interface for a while.
I've checked cable/switch and even tried a 100Mb switch as a fallback but no luck. I don't see anything in the RH knowledgebase but find lots of hints that other distros have had problems of this sort with the skge driver (perhaps only on 64bit kernels <= 2.6.23). Has anyone else seen this and found a workaround? Is the upstream vendor working on this (the absence of a knowledgebase entry doesn't bode well but maybe someone with a subscription can check in more depth)? - -- Robert E. Blair, Room E277, Building 362 Argonne National Laboratory (High Energy Physics Division) 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USA Phone: (630)-252-7545 FAX: (630)-252-5782 GnuPG Public Key: http://www.hep.anl.gov/reb/key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH2UYfOMIGC6x7/XQRAqx+AKCGQldx7WFeeDTnV+lvVpvaXtlMfACfSWc3 I8vvQpfziamGqmV+Ex0mdS4= =oLR4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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