[Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?

Thu Mar 24 22:30:57 CET 2011

Frank Griffin a écrit :
+>
+> 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.
+
+I had a similar problem from time to time on a system with an 8139c nic 
+a while back.
+The suggested solution worked.
+(It was a common solution for similar problems at the time.)
+Sometimes unplugging/replugging the data cable a few times helps.
+It might be more the connected circuits than the nic itself.
+Static charges, apparently.
+
+-- 
+André
+