Re: [opensuse] Network card driver problem

Dave Plater wrote:

Hi, ever since I moved my system to an msi 945 based motherboard I
have had an irritating intermittent problem with my Ethernet. It works
fine, including after power off power on most of the time until it
decides not to. I power on my pc and suddenly eth0, although showing
up as working does not connect to the router (have tried restarting
router etc & there's a vista machine with same giglan type that does
not have problem). I've tried various things like starting up with lan
disabled in the bios and then restarting with it enabled again,
changing cables etc etc. A few weeks ago I recompiled the kernel with
an internal lan driver and I had no more problems. I upgraded my
kernel and all worked fine until a power fail brought the problem back
again. I reinstalled kernel and eth0 worked again for two power cycles
then this morning same problem, which was easy to fix, I just
reinstalled the kernel and rebooted. The key symptom of failure is
when ethtool shows Speed: 100Mb/s it will connect properly but if it
shows Speed: 1000Mb/s the system just sits trying to connect to the
router but the leds don't indicate any network activity. I've tried to
set the speed to 100 but that does not happen, in fact whether eth0
connects or not ethtool cannot change any settings on lan anyway. It
seems to me like the driver thinks it is working with eth0 but in fact
it doesn't. Please help, I'm stumped.

Any error messages from "dmesg"?


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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