Hi, On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Timothy Normand Miller wrote: > I'm having a problem with both of the built-in NICs of my MSI X48 > Platinum motherboard. The docs at kernel.org seem to suggest this > list. I hope this is the right list to post to. > > I'm using Gentoo with kernel version 2.6.25-gentoo-r5, a 'genkernel'. > > The NIC that seems to work at all is the RealTek. It works fine after > booting, but if I do any significant amount of network traffic, the > NIC just seems to lockup. Restarting the net service doesn't help, and > rmmod'ing the module and insmod'ing it doesn't help either. > > This post: > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=160512 > seems to suggest that the Linux driver (back in 2007) would > inadvertently switch the device off. Are there still problems with > this driver? Any suggestions as to how to diagnose the problem? > > Alternatively, I can use the Intel 83566DC, but for the life of me, I > cannot figure out which kernel module supports this device. Google > searches come up empty. How can I figure out which module to use? Since the Intel 83566DC appears to be a PCI-E GigE NIC, I would assume you should use the e1000e driver. -Bill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
