Re: [CentOS] Odd thing with Realtek Ethernet card

2012-03-18 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 19:41 +, Ken Smith wrote: > After reconfiguring the network settings I find that on boot up the 8169 > interface does not start. The startup script says something like "The > 8169 is not available..." > > ifconfig -a shows a device with the right mac address called > _

Re: [CentOS] Odd thing with Realtek Ethernet card

2012-03-16 Thread m . roth
Digimer wrote: > On 03/16/2012 04:03 PM, Devin Reade wrote: >> --On Friday, March 16, 2012 07:41:18 PM + Ken Smith >> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, I swapped a Realtek 8139 100M Net Card for a Realtek 8169 Gig >>> Net card in a Centos 5.6 system. >> In some cases, they didn't get recognised at boo

Re: [CentOS] Odd thing with Realtek Ethernet card

2012-03-16 Thread Digimer
On 03/16/2012 04:03 PM, Devin Reade wrote: > --On Friday, March 16, 2012 07:41:18 PM + Ken Smith > wrote: > >> Hi all, I swapped a Realtek 8139 100M Net Card for a Realtek 8169 Gig >> Net card in a Centos 5.6 system. > > Although the 100M versions were passable, I found the GB versions > to

Re: [CentOS] Odd thing with Realtek Ethernet card

2012-03-16 Thread Devin Reade
--On Friday, March 16, 2012 07:41:18 PM + Ken Smith wrote: > Hi all, I swapped a Realtek 8139 100M Net Card for a Realtek 8169 Gig > Net card in a Centos 5.6 system. Although the 100M versions were passable, I found the GB versions to be so flakey to be not worth it; I ripped them out and r

[CentOS] Odd thing with Realtek Ethernet card

2012-03-16 Thread Ken Smith
Hi all, I swapped a Realtek 8139 100M Net Card for a Realtek 8169 Gig Net card in a Centos 5.6 system. After reconfiguring the network settings I find that on boot up the 8169 interface does not start. The startup script says something like "The 8169 is not available..." ifconfig -a shows a de