Per Jessen wrote:
Dave Plater wrote:
Hi, ever since I moved my system to an msi 945 based motherboard I have had an irritating intermittent problem with my Ethernet. It works fine, including after power off power on most of the time until it decides not to. I power on my pc and suddenly eth0, although showing up as working does not connect to the router (have tried restarting router etc & there's a vista machine with same giglan type that does not have problem). I've tried various things like starting up with lan disabled in the bios and then restarting with it enabled again, changing cables etc etc. A few weeks ago I recompiled the kernel with an internal lan driver and I had no more problems. I upgraded my kernel and all worked fine until a power fail brought the problem back again. I reinstalled kernel and eth0 worked again for two power cycles then this morning same problem, which was easy to fix, I just reinstalled the kernel and rebooted. The key symptom of failure is when ethtool shows Speed: 100Mb/s it will connect properly but if it shows Speed: 1000Mb/s the system just sits trying to connect to the router but the leds don't indicate any network activity. I've tried to set the speed to 100 but that does not happen, in fact whether eth0 connects or not ethtool cannot change any settings on lan anyway. It seems to me like the driver thinks it is working with eth0 but in fact it doesn't. Please help, I'm stumped.
Any error messages from "dmesg"?
/Per Jessen, Zürich
I picked this up from the failure this morning in messages, the NETDEV WATCHDOG: part didn't occur when eth0 started working again. Jun 8 09:09:38 Arbuthnot ifup: eth0 Jun 8 09:09:38 Arbuthnot ntpd[3599]: Listening on interface #3 eth0, fe80::21d:92ff:fe82:5c1#123 Enabled Jun 8 09:09:38 Arbuthnot ntpd[3599]: Listening on interface #6 eth0, 10.0.0.54#123 Enabled Jun 8 09:09:50 Arbuthnot kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 8 09:09:51 Arbuthnot kernel: r8169: eth0: link up Jun 8 09:10:56 Arbuthnot kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 8 09:10:57 Arbuthnot kernel: r8169: eth0: link up Jun 8 09:12:14 Arbuthnot kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 8 09:12:15 Arbuthnot kernel: r8169: eth0: link up Jun 8 09:13:20 Arbuthnot kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 8 09:13:21 Arbuthnot kernel: r8169: eth0: link up Jun 8 09:14:32 Arbuthnot kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 8 09:14:33 Arbuthnot kernel: r8169: eth0: link up Jun 8 09:15:44 Arbuthnot kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 8 09:15:45 Arbuthnot kernel: r8169: eth0: link up Jun 8 09:16:56 Arbuthnot kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 8 09:16:57 Arbuthnot kernel: r8169: eth0: link up Jun 8 09:18:08 Arbuthnot kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 8 09:18:08 Arbuthnot ifdown: eth0 device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev ff) Jun 8 09:18:09 Arbuthnot kernel: r8169: eth0: link up Jun 8 09:19:32 Arbuthnot ntpd[2423]: Listening on interface #3 eth0, fe80::21d:92ff:fe82:5c1#123 Enabled Jun 8 09:19:32 Arbuthnot ntpd[2423]: Listening on interface #6 eth0, 10.0.0.54#123 Enabled Jun 8 09:19:37 Arbuthnot kernel: r8169: eth0: link up Jun 8 09:19:37 Arbuthnot kernel: r8169: eth0: link up Jun 8 09:19:41 Arbuthnot kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present Jun 8 09:19:50 Arbuthnot ifup: eth0 device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org