Re: Problems with RealTek R8111B and Intel 83566DC NICs

[Bill Fink]

Hi,

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Timothy Normand Miller wrote:

> I'm having a problem with both of the built-in NICs of my MSI X48
> Platinum motherboard.  The docs at kernel.org seem to suggest this
> list.  I hope this is the right list to post to.
> 
> I'm using Gentoo with kernel version 2.6.25-gentoo-r5, a 'genkernel'.
> 
> The NIC that seems to work at all is the RealTek.  It works fine after
> booting, but if I do any significant amount of network traffic, the
> NIC just seems to lockup. Restarting the net service doesn't help, and
> rmmod'ing the module and insmod'ing it doesn't help either.
> 
> This post:
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=160512
> seems to suggest that the Linux driver (back in 2007) would
> inadvertently switch the device off.  Are there still problems with
> this driver?  Any suggestions as to how to diagnose the problem?
> 
> Alternatively, I can use the Intel 83566DC, but for the life of me, I
> cannot figure out which kernel module supports this device.  Google
> searches come up empty.  How can I figure out which module to use?

Since the Intel 83566DC appears to be a PCI-E GigE NIC, I would assume
you should use the e1000e driver.

						-Bill
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