Manfred Hollstein wrote:
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 Thanks manfred, I will try that next kernel upgrade as the problem is rare with the driver compiled in. I would love to know what is actually going wrong and causing the version number to change. regards Dave P.
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