[Gllug] 8139 driver problem

[Lee Blackwell]

I'd first check that your card is talking to your network hub/switch at
the correct speed, ie 100Mb/full duplex, or half duplex, or 10Mb/full or
half etc etc

If in doubt turn off auto negotiate (on the switch/hub too) and force it
to a certain speed.

HTH,

Lee

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Lee Blackwell
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On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Jonathan Dye wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I've got a RealTek 8139 Network card and am running RedHat 7.1 with updated
> rpm's (Including the kernel rpm making it version 2.4.3-12).  My network
> connection keeps being dropped (By dropped I mean it doesn't respond to any
> network traffic even though the link lights are on) for no apparent reason
> and the only problem I can see in the log files is the following:
> media is unconnected, link down, or incompatible connection
>
> But this happens at boot time and the link can be running for ages before
> anything goes wrong.  I don't think I had any problems with the default
> RH7.1 kernel (2.4.2 I think) but I only had it running for about 2 hours
> before upgrading.
>
> I don't know which (if any) log/configuration files are needed to diagnose
> this so I haven't included any with this mail.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this or tell me how to downgrade my kernel rpm
> or where to find a patch so that I can fix my current kernel source and
> compile my own?
>
> JD
>
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