Hi, the problem I mentioned seems to be known, and due to bugs in the Linux drivers for the rtl8139. I replaced the network card with a 3com (and hence a wildly different driver), and everything works fine. Summary: don't use a network card with a rtl8139 chip (at least on a 2.4 kernel) till these problems have been sorted out. More details on http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/realtek/2002-June/001398.html. Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans <at> ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom web site address: http://www.irsl.org/~kris
-----Original Message----- From: Kris Thielemans [mailto:kris.thielemans@csc.mrc.ac.uk] Sent: 24 June 2002 10:59 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Suse 7.3 network connection drops out
Dear all,
I've installed SuSE 7.3 on my Athlon system. I experience the following problem:
occasionally the (ethernet) network connection drops out (and stays out for at least a day, I never tried to wait longer). With this I mean that even ping to the router (using the IP number) does not work anymore. Network connection reappears after rebooting, but also when I simply execute the following commands (as root):
ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth0 172.16.20.2 broadcast 172.16.255.255 netmask 255.255.0.0 rcroute start
I have a RealTek 8139 network card. Suse 7.3 installed the 8139too driver, but I've replaced it with D. Becker's latest rtl8139 driver.