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Re: [SLE] Network problems..
  • From: Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 12:44:08 -0500
  • Message-id: <20050206174408.GZ7806@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Anders Norrbring <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [02-06-05 11:46]:
>
> I have a MSI motherboard with integrated gigbit network, Broadcom
> NetXtreme 5788 chip.
>
> This board has worked really fine with Windows XP for more than 6
> months, but now when I try to run SuSE Linux on it I run into serious
> problems.
>
> After a while it seems like the network "dies" on me and I loose
> connection. If I then do a "/etc/init.d/network restart" it comes up
> again.
>
> Are there any known issues? I could put in a separate NIC, but if
> there's a solution with the onboard chip I can as well use it.

a google search for "+broadcom +netxtreme +gigabit +5788 +linux"
yields several sites with reference to your equipment and possibly a
solution...

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