[Gllug] 8139 driver problem

[Jonathan Dye]

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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