RE: Problems with RealTek R8111B and Intel 83566DC NICs

[Allan, Bruce W]

AFAIK, there is no 83566DC.  I assume you meant 82566DC in which case
you definitely want to use the e1000e driver.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: linux-net-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-net-
>owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Fink
>Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 8:46 PM
>To: Timothy Normand Miller
>Cc: linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Problems with RealTek R8111B and Intel 83566DC NICs
>
>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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