Status on support for Realtek RTL8111B

[Timothy Normand Miller]

My motherboard has a NIC on it that lspci reports as a "Realtek
Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B".  In the past, the Linux
support for this chip hasn't been very good.  Like other reports I see
on the net, when I try to use this NIC, it works for a little while,
after which the NIC seems to just die.  It stops transferring data,
and any process trying to transfer data also hangs up.  I think some
were even unkillable.  Only a cold boot will unlock the chip.

What's the current state of the driver for this chip?  Has this
problem been fixed yet?

Thanks.

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Timothy Normand Miller
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti
Open Graphics Project
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