I have a problem with my ethernet card Realtek RTL-8110SC/8169SC on my Asus P5K Premium Board.
I use openSuSE 10.3… the module used is “r8169”.
I use a static IP… no DHCP.
I don’t think that the configuration is incorrect, because mostly the network works fine.
Sometimes - unfortunately not reproduceable - the ethernet connection fails with “link down”… more often it fails with “lower speed” (10MBit or 100MBit instead of 1000MBit).
If the network fails I have to restart the computer until the network has been initialised correctly (sometimes more than one restart). “rcnetwork restart” doesn’t help
I tried to change the switch and the cable but the problem is still the same.
With Windows - on the same machine - there seem to be no problems with the network card :eek:
Yes I tried the Windows setting “Wake-on-lan after shutdown”… but that makes no difference. The problem also exists between two Linux boots.
I already asked for help within a thread in the german forum Linux-Club, but no one could help me to solve the problem
Did you use PPPE ?
Are you sure that it not should be IP dynamic ?
Before I run DHCP I use a Belkin ethernet card It chip was Realtek and it only
works properly with PPPE IP dynamic
dobby9
Well first a misread you,re thread ,sorry fore that.
But when I was still working , every time I longin on our network I get I new IP adres ,when I have shutdown my computer
They only a sign fixed IP to the servers and
network printers
So I do not know how you,res is set up
I have a giga-byte ga-945gcm motherboard with a realtek 8111C ethernet chip, Suse installs the r8169 module but Realtek specify the r8168 module.After much reading and many failed attempts to install the r8168 module using tar balls, I found this link to a rpm source, Index of /repositories/home:/bitshuffler/openSUSE_10.3_update/x86_64
Select the default kernel and left clicked on this file and saved to my download directory.
Then left clicked and installed with YAST.
As root, in a terminal
insmod lib/modules/2.6.22.18-0.2-default/updates/r8168.ko
to install the r8168 driver
and to stop running r8169 driver, edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
by adding blacklist r8169
To check what modules are loaded
lspci | grep thernet to check what driver is detected
lsmod | grep r* to check what module is loaded
Hope this helps