RE: Realtek NIC issues

2009-09-04 Thread Steven M. Caesare
9 2:31 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Realtek NIC issues > > 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

Re: Realtek NIC issues

2009-09-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
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 whe

RE: Realtek NIC issues

2009-09-03 Thread John Aldrich
rs ago) lying around. Fortunately, I haven't needed to replace many NICs. :-) -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Realtek NIC issues By the gross? Wow, that's a bu

RE: Realtek NIC issues

2009-09-03 Thread Joseph Heaton
By the gross? Wow, that's a bunch of NIC swaps... >>> "John Aldrich" 9/3/2009 7:32 AM >>> Well, I've *generally* had no issues with Realtek based NICs before. That being said, I've had a small handful of Realtek cards just refuse to work in my 10 or so years in IT. As recently as yesterday, I ha

RE: Realtek NIC issues

2009-09-03 Thread Don Guyer
ncaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com <mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com> From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Realtek NI

RE: Realtek NIC issues

2009-09-03 Thread John Aldrich
Well, I've *generally* had no issues with Realtek based NICs before. That being said, I've had a small handful of Realtek cards just refuse to work in my 10 or so years in IT. As recently as yesterday, I had to replace a Realtek-based NIC because the machine would not see the network after I moved

RE: Realtek NIC issues

2009-09-03 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
No real solution for you, but maybe a shorter way to reinitialize the nic. You may have tried it already, but I've found that disabling the nic, then re-enabling it will sometimes force a reinitialization. When that works, it saves a reboot. From: pierre.cami