On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 14:28 +0100, Vince wrote: > Hi, > I encounter a very strange problem with FC 3. Every hour I loose > network, I mean I can no more ping my computer nor get any traffic > through the Ethernet card. The ethernet card is a realtek !. > The only way to get the network back is to push one time the power > button of the computer and then networks comes back. I get the > following lines then in log of the computer: > > Feb 6 12:20:26 slimserver kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device > 0000:00:0a.0 > Feb 6 12:20:26 slimserver kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, > lpa 0x45E1 > Feb 6 12:20:31 slimserver kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: reactivate --> -22 > Feb 6 12:20:31 slimserver kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: reactivate --> -22 > > Do you have an idea what is doing that ? I have removed apmd services > and everything that concerns energy savings ! > Thanks for all your tips :) > > Vincèn > Vince, Try turning off auto-negotiation on your Ethernet card. Set it to 100Mbps full duplex or 10 Mbps half duplex. I had a similar problem with a realtek card. I think it was an 8139. It did not negotiate well with a dlink router. ethtool or mii-tool should help determine which works best, then add the appropriate option to /etc/modprobe.conf. I could not find a definition of realtek's supported kernel parameters in /usr/share/doc/... Maybe google. Bob...
