On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 14:48 -0400, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

The issue is the Windows driver for that card puts the card into some state (disabled? "power save?") that the Linux driver does not bring the card out of. It could work to when stopping vista, shut down the computer and wait a few secs before turning it on. It could also work to enable WOL in Windows driver, or enable the boot ROM (PXE boot) of the LAN card in your BIOS settings.

AFAIK the bug is not resolved for 11.0 but I would assume that 11.1 does have a newer Kernel.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=404695

Pending updating the kernel, the work-around that seems to work is to disconnect the ethernet cable *while still running Vista*, and reconnect after Opensuse has booted. Thanks for the help. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

* Andrew Joakimsen [09-22-08 16:05]:

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Bob Gifford wrote:

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Pending updating the kernel, the work-around that seems to work is to disconnect the ethernet cable *while still running Vista*, and reconnect after Opensuse has booted.

With most of the development efforts going towards 11.1 I wouldn't count on any update to fix your issue on 11.0.

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Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Bob Gifford wrote:

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I just bought a HP desktop with a Realtek NIC. It came with Vista installed, and the NIC works fine under Vista, but it will not work with Opensuse 11.

Yast thinks the NIC is installed and configured, but Suse won't connect. Ping commands, even to my local router, come back with "Network can't be reached".

Vista says that this is a Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0).

The issue is the Windows driver for that card puts the card into some state (disabled? "power save?") that the Linux driver does not bring the card out of. It could work to when stopping vista, shut down the computer and wait a few secs before turning it on. It could also work to enable WOL in Windows driver, or enable the boot ROM (PXE boot) of the LAN card in your BIOS settings.

AFAIK the bug is not resolved for 11.0 but I would assume that 11.1 does have a newer Kernel.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=404695 I installed the 2.6.25.16-0.1 kernel from opensuse 11.0 update repository and it works as does the patched kernel-pae-2.6.25.15-0.1 that I used for some while. The problem is fixed in any kernel => than 2.6.27.rc2. The 2.6.24 kernel series actually works better than the 2.6.25 series for some reason or other. The 2.6.26 series works 99% of the time. The problem is intermittent and in my case indicated by the version of the NIC displaying as 0xFF instead of 0x02. If I saw 0x02 it worked if I had 0xFF I had to reboot again and hope to have a working connection. XP doesn't even have a driver. Because the problem is intermittent it very often seems as if something solves it but it is not so. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11298 for more info. Regards Dave P

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Bob Gifford wrote:

You were right. My "workaround" turned out to be illusory, so I went ahead and installed the 2.6.25.15 kernel, and it seems to be fixed -- have rebooted several times and it has come up every time.

Thanks.

The 2.6.25.16-0.1 kernel in http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.0/ repository and any kernel after that should have been patched and should work. I'm using the 2.6.25.16-0.1 at the moment. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org