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stuartma
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 Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:37 am Post subject: RealTek Wows |
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Im running a RealTek RTL8139 on my machine given its connection details from DHCP. But i can only stay online for 3 or 4 minutes before i lose all connection with the network local and internet. I have no idea whats wrong but ive found this appears repeatedly in dmesg...
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Mar 6 22:20:37 looneytoons NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Mar 6 22:20:37 looneytoons eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0c 0005 c07f media 10.
Mar 6 22:20:37 looneytoons eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0.
Mar 6 22:20:37 looneytoons eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 0008a03c. (queue head)
Mar 6 22:20:37 looneytoons eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 0008a03c.
Mar 6 22:20:37 looneytoons eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 0008a03c.
Mar 6 22:20:37 looneytoons eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 0008a03c.
Mar 6 22:20:37 looneytoons eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
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Does anyone know what it means or whats going wrong? |
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Galahad
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Probably the card. My advice: don't buy ANYTHING Realtek. It's cheap and crappy and unreliable. You can get a decent card for $15, so go out and buy yourself a 3com or Intel. |
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passive
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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Try passing "noapic" to your kernel.
I'm not sure about the dmesg output, but this mimics a common problem. |
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stuartma
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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its a laptop so replacing the card isnt an opion  but ill do the noacpic option and let you know if it get me anywhere |
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jkhax0r
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the help, I had a similar problem and this fixed it. |
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