[opensuse] Marvel 88E8053 and SuSE 10.1

Hi,

I've got a box using an ASUS P5W DH with Intel core duo and two onboard
Marvel 88E8053 (rev 20) gigabit ethernet adapters. Only one is
configured (somehow on eth1) and connected to the 100MB University
network. The card was configured automatically by Yast2 and uses the
sky2 driver.

The network is often quite heavily loaded (mostly CVS and HTTP).

Most of the time, all works fine. From time to time however the
connection is hopelessly slow. Running ifdown eth1 && ifup eth1
generally restores it to working state. Fun thing is that I often find
myself in a situation where I can no longer reach any host on the local
network, but I can still reach hosts further away. As I'm the only one
having trouble and ifdown/ifup restores, it must be my problem.

I've seen various posts on the status of the Marvel 88E8053 and Linux.
Many people experience problems. Many are old, irrelevant, etc.

I can't afford too much playing with this machine, so my concrete question
is, what would you recomment:

* Upgrade to SuSE 10.2?
* Use another driver? I tried sk98lin that comes with the
10.1 2.6.16.27-0.9-smp kernel, but it won't recognise the
controller. Is there a newer source release of the sky2
driver?
* Forget about it and place a simple well supported 100MB
ethernet controller?
* Other options ... ?

Thanks for any hints

--- Jan

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