Sorry about that - it's SL5. The NIC was not detected until I installed 
the r1000 driver package.

thanks,

Steve Gaarder
System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Steve Gaarder wrote:
>> I just installed SL for the first time on an Intel Core Duo box with an MSI 
>> G965M-FIR motherboard. This board has a Realtek RTL-8169SC network inteface 
>> that uses the r1000 driver.  Pings show a bizarre pattern.  If I ping every 
>> 10 seconds, the turnaround time gradually increases with each ping until it 
>> hits about 2 seconds, at which point it drops back to a low value and 
>> starts climbing again.  If I ping every second, I see the increasing 
>> behavior also, with every other ping taking an extra second.
>> 
>> Any clues?
>> 
>
> Hi,
> Which version of SL did you install?
> Back with SL 4.x we put in our own driver.
> In SL 5.x the driver is now part of the normal kernel.
>
> So, we really need to know to even start debugging.
>
> Thanks
> Troy
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