H! All,
This on-board gigabit ether net gives strange problem. It works most of the times but at times it does not work.
Distro: Ubuntu 8.04 (I am not upgrading/changing distro, it ain't broken, wont fix. ;-) )
Kernel Version: Linux matrix 2.6.24-18-generic #1 SMP Wed May 28 20:27:26 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
dmesg [ 126.566892] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out [ 127.381312] r8169: eth0: link up [ 204.415881] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out [ 205.229306] r8169: eth0: link up [ 677.674793] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out [ 678.489221] r8169: eth0: link up
lspci: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev ff)
lspci -vvv (Nonworking State): 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev ff) (prog-if ff) !!! Unknown header type 7f
lspci -vvv (working State): 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device e000 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 221 I/O ports at a000 [size=256] Memory at d1010000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at d1000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at d1020000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: <access denied>
Any ideas what's happening? TIA With regards,