[sclug] RTL8201 (Sis961) problem

[Pieter Claassen]

Hi Philip,

The problem seems to have gone away. I must say that I noticed that while I
was having the problems with the card, the card never powered down (the boot
cycle seems to still keep the card awake for wake-on-lan). Once I replaced
the hard drive and installed a new OS (also cold booted the machine) then
things worked fine, even with the original Debian installation that was
giving me trouble.

Is it possible that the card gets into a unstable state and not gets reset
during a reboot?
Cheers,
Pieter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Hands" <phil at hands.com>
To: "Pieter Claassen" <pieter at openauth.co.uk>
Cc: <sclug at sclug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: [sclug] RTL8201 (Sis961) problem


> At Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:21:21 -0000,
> Pieter Claassen wrote:
> >
> > 1. The card is an onboard  SiS961 that looks like or uses (I don't
> > understand if it is a SiS chip or RTL) RTL8201.
>
> No idea if this is related, but I had some motherboards that I was
> testing recently with SiS900 based on-board NIC, and with the sis900.o
> driver I found that it seemed to be dropping interrupts.  The most
> obvious symptom being that ping would see no return packets for about
> 5 seconds and then show a flurry of round trip times of about
> 10,9,8,7 & 6 seconds, then get five seconds of sensible RTTs, then
> lock up again, and so on.
>
> You might want to try the sis900 driver instead of the RTL8201 one.
> You also might want to check more recent kernel changelogs --- I seem
> to remember something about SiS chipset NICs being mentioned in the
> 2.4.20 or 2.4.19 changelog.
>
> Cheers, Phil.
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