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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org