Re: Forcedeth: Nvidia NIC goes up and down

[Anders Rune Jensen]

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 22:43 +0200, jos.huisken@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have a similar issue. The network drops away randomly for short periods (several to ten(s) seconds).
> Strange enough nothing is reported is syslog, and indeed from the machine itself pinging works perfectly to another machine.
> From that other machine however the connections looks dead in those periods...
> 
> I'm running kernel 2.6.18.8-0.5-default on a SUSE 10.2 machine with a ASUS M2NPV-VM board.
> Have tried both the default "0.59" and "0.62-Driver Package V1.23" version of forcedeth
> Tried 2 BIOSes: 0901 and 1001.
> 
> Also have tried several kernel options independently: noapic, pci=routeirq, acpi=off, pci=nomsi
> All did not help.
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?

I got it working by connecting the network card my old 100mbit hub. It
seems that the problem is only when it runs a 1gbit. So my setup is now
1gbit switch <> computers, 1mbit hub <> machine with broken netcard.

This is good enough for now, since I don't really transfer that much
data to and from the machine, but of course I would like to have 1gbit
working for when I actually do need it ;-)

> BTW I'm not subscribed, please CC me personally.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -- Jos

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Anders Rune Jensen
http://people.iola.dk/anders/

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