Steve,
I've got
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit
Ethernet (rev 10)
in my Asus A6Kt laptop. My problems with that card began in FC5 when RedHat
introduced kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5. I opend a case 202917 with RH Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202917
With that kernel I could not connect to Solaris 9 box running SunSSH. I could
not view https pages from Apache on Solaris 9 etc...
I uploaded and attached to the case tcpdump log files from both linux and
solaris boxes [the error was lost tcp segment]. I tried to fix the problem by
installing the previous workable kernel, but it's gone from repository...
I could not spend much time with debugging the problem, so I tried CentOS.
My NIC was working again, but I was not very happy with CentOS [just personal
feelings]; tried FC6, but that "bug" introduced in that kernel happily migrated
to FC6 [may be not many people have this networking card and complaining about
it]. RH happilly closed the case: I can not blame them -- they probably do not
have such hardware and I can not provide them with new information as I need a
working computer and I can not use FC5 anymore [all previous kernel gone].
At this time I found SL4.4 - tried, was very happy with it [and my NIC problems
gone]. But... RH introduced RHEL5, based on FC6. SL made SL5. I tried it
[without thinking that it is probably the same kernel as in FC6]. And my old
problems came back: cannot ssh to Solaris 9 with SunSSH [btw I can ssh to
Solaris 10 with SunSSH] and I can use web interface to Interwoven TeamSite [as
http is disabled and https does not work].
What I've found in SL50 is the content of r1000:
rpm -ql r1000
/usr/share/doc/r1000-1.05
/usr/share/doc/r1000-1.05/README
/usr/share/doc/r1000-1.05/release_note.txt
no kernel modules, just some docs. Because r1000 is a part of official kernel
now which have problems...
Do you want to open a case with RH?
But you are not using RHEL, but SL instead...
Do we have a bugzilla in SL?
Thanks
Alex
PS My another problem with RH kernel -- they dropped support for ufs [and I have
Solaris 10 on one of my partitions. I can mount ext2fs in Solaris, but not ufs
in Linux anymore...] but it's different story...
Quoting Steve Gaarder <[log in to unmask]>:
> 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?
>
> Steve Gaarder
> System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics
> Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
> [log in to unmask]
>
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