[opensuse] Marvel 88E8053 and SuSE 10.1
Hi, I've got a box using an ASUS P5W DH with Intel core duo and two onboard Marvel 88E8053 (rev 20) gigabit ethernet adapters. Only one is configured (somehow on eth1) and connected to the 100MB University network. The card was configured automatically by Yast2 and uses the sky2 driver. The network is often quite heavily loaded (mostly CVS and HTTP). Most of the time, all works fine. From time to time however the connection is hopelessly slow. Running ifdown eth1 && ifup eth1 generally restores it to working state. Fun thing is that I often find myself in a situation where I can no longer reach any host on the local network, but I can still reach hosts further away. As I'm the only one having trouble and ifdown/ifup restores, it must be my problem. I've seen various posts on the status of the Marvel 88E8053 and Linux. Many people experience problems. Many are old, irrelevant, etc. I can't afford too much playing with this machine, so my concrete question is, what would you recomment: * Upgrade to SuSE 10.2? * Use another driver? I tried sk98lin that comes with the 10.1 2.6.16.27-0.9-smp kernel, but it won't recognise the controller. Is there a newer source release of the sky2 driver? * Forget about it and place a simple well supported 100MB ethernet controller? * Other options ... ? Thanks for any hints --- Jan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jan Wielemaker escribió: * Upgrade to SuSE 10.2? Yes, and open a bugzilla ticket if can be reproduced with 10.2 with all the info you can retrieve.
On Friday 30 March 2007 23:09, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote:
Jan Wielemaker escribió: * Upgrade to SuSE 10.2?
Yes, and open a bugzilla ticket if can be reproduced with 10.2 with all the info you can retrieve.
I did. This was a bit more work than expected as the upgrade from 10.1 to 10.2 stopped after resolving some package inconsistency with a non-informative message (sorry, forgot which). I did a fresh install of 10.2 :-( Unfortunately this made the situation even worse. In 10.1 the system was totally reliable, just the network connection died every now and than. Under 10.2, the system freezed completely two times within 24 hours. It also lost the network once. Where a simple ifdown/ifup worked in 10.1, it had no effect in 10.2 (also no alarming messages in /var/log/messages, just no network). As it is running important network services, I can't affort much downtime. I disabled the internal NIC and placed a good old 3com 3c905B. No problems sofar :-) Some more info: in 10.1 the problems appeared more frequent while the system is in use interactively. It has a nVidia GeForce 7300 LE graphics running in dual-head configuration using the nVidia driver. It also appeared that during times with poor response from the University services (the machine is NIS client) things got worse. I'm afraid this isn't much to go after :-( I guess the advice must be not to use the described combo for anything serious. Thanks --- Jan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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