Maybe it's time to open a bugzilla with TUV? On 27.10.2015 15:10, Larry Linder wrote: > This is the same problem we experianced with SL 6.0 in August 13. ( Two years > ago ). - the comm chip set is not broken. Run ifconfig and you can see that > it Receives data but no transmit. > SL 5.10 works. > SL 6.0 and later versions have a mistake in driver and kernal, are broken.. > > We used a ELRepo kernal and driver to fix problem with SL 6.5. It has worked > well for 2 years. > > We gave up on SL 7 ect. for a server / back up. We just purchased a raid box > with 10 slots and it uses Linux with a wonderful clean and logical desk top. > > For other boxes in plant we decided drop back to SL 6.7 which works pretty > well. But no Ethernet as in SL 6.5. > > Looking for an Elrepo driver and Kernel to fix problem. There is not a set > for SL 6.7. Anyone have any idea when we might see the driver and kernel. > > When I am looking at complaints with with install problems the Ethernet > problem may contribute to a lot of these unhappy campers. > It is too bad the upstream vender did not fix the problem up front. It would > have saved a lot of people a lot of fooling around. > Leaving broken problems unfixed is a mistake and just conpounds the orrig. > error. As the versions move along and the number of users expands things > just get worse. > > Thank You > Larry Linder > -- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) Andreas Petzold Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, Building 449, Room 202 D-76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Tel: +49 721 608 24916 Fax: +49 721 608 24972 Email: [log in to unmask] www.scc.kit.edu KIT – University of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and National Research Center of the Helmholtz Association