Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (22 mails)

[Manfred Hollstein <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, 11:06:43 +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
> Hi, I've asked this question on the opensuse list but was met with silence.
> I have had an intermittent network connection problem since new with my msi 
> 945GCM7 ICH7 motherboard with RTL8111C giglan. This problem has spanned 
> factory alpha to present 11.0 retail with 2.6.25.9-0.2 kernel.
> After boot although everything reports as working, my network won't 
> connect. Sometimes restarting the network will make it work but most times 
> not. If it is not working ethtool reports a speed of 1000Mb/s, if it is 
> working a speed of 100Mb/s (router speed) is reported. I found in the 
> beginning, starting with the NIC off in the bios and then rebooting with it 
> on made it work but not always. I have changed cables etc.

Dunno if this is relevant here, but maybe you can give this a try. When
I had several problems with Intel NICs, disabling the MSI interrupts at
the kernel boot prompt made them go away; this was on an older 2.6.16
kernel, though. Please try adding "nomsi" (without the "'s, of course)
at your GRUB prompt and see if it helps.

Cheers.

l8er
manfred
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