[Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?

Frank Griffin ftg at roadrunner.com
Thu Mar 24 21:44:52 CET 2011


On 03/24/2011 04:37 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote:
>
> I'm not sure it's broken.
>
> Realtek is known to have somewhat crappy NICs that can tend to lock up 
> in a "middle state" if a driver probe comes too fast, and then they 
> dont react to any link or driver loading anymore.
>
> One way that might help is to power off the computer, disconnect it 
> from power _and_ disconnect the network cables, wait a few minutes, 
> connect everything again and try again.

OK.  I *did* try a cold boot, but I didn't go quite that far.  I'll try 
this, but probably not till Monday.  Odd, though, that I've never had a 
whisper of trouble from this NIC in the years since I built this 
machine.  Thanks for the suggestion.


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