<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Ok went further in my diagnosis ...<br>
<br>
The onboard lan seems to be dead, too many errors in Tx/Rx, I give up
on this one.<br>
Tried a Ubuntu live and Realtek 8169 card, no problem.<br>
conclusion : a distro problem obviously, and if so, either I do an
upgrade and need more info regarding issues that I know will pop up at
some stage OR I change for another brand of NIC card either Intel/ HP.
I will not take a broadcom as I have tried them before with same
behaviour.<br>
Cheers<br>
E<br>
<br>
E Chalaron wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid48EA8161.4070502@xtra.co.nz" type="cite">
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
Hello Peter and all<br>
<br>
Well .... the nvidia lan is working this morning. Reason ? unknown ...<br>
I did get the patch from nvidia yesterday, but it has not been working,
til this morning after attempt #3 and removing all r8169 chipset cards.<br>
Then I tried to copy across my network some files got 300 Kb.<br>
Ifconfig eth0 is reporting 49 Rx and 18 TX errors out of 1321 and 2000
respectively.<br>
It seems a lot to me.<br>
I have tested all nic cards on a windows machine : all fine.<br>
I even had recompiled the r1869 driver from source, removed the old
module etc...<br>
<br>
I am trying a live suse11 on the trouble maker. Will see what it gives.<br>
cheers<br>
E<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Peter Lambrechtsen wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mida9a8c2eb0810061313v5b953424he30dafcdaf07aca@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:57 AM, E Chalaron <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:e.chalaron@xtra.co.nz"><e.chalaron@xtra.co.nz></a> wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Brent Wood wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Some options...
Is this a official SUSE 10 box, with auto updates from Novell being applied? Could such an update have broken something?
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">Yep , official box, updates are automatic... so .... might be :-(
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
An update could have broken it, perhaps it was one of the newer kernels.
Is there anything out of place in the dmesg, does lspci and lsmod tell
you it can see the card and that it is configured and working how you
would expect it to.
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Can you ping the box on it's own (not loopback) IP address for that NIC?
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">Yes I can on both Realtek and Nvidia
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
I do find having the same chipset card in the same machine depending
on the driver you may need to specify additional options such as which
card you are modprobing, tried ifconfig down the nic, then rmmod the
driver, then insmod the driver to the particular port one of them is
listening on.
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Do you have a NIC that uses a different chipset/driver from the flaky one?
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">I will get one....
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
I have found the Intel E1000 and Broadcom B57 to be very stable in
SLES, most server class machines from IDM/Dell/HP ship with either of
these two cards in them and I have never had a problem.
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">If so, that could avoid any driver issues which may be causing a problem.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">I will try with a live ubuntu distro if things are coming up. in that
case I will put away the hardware problem.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
I would have thought compiling your own drivers, unless the kernel
already includes support for the driver would be the most stable way
to get the card going. Perhaps it could be one of the kernel updates
includes support for your card, so a boot parameter in grub's menu.lst
to not load the kernel module may be a way around the problem.
Peter
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">
<hr size="4" width="90%">
</pre>
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>