[Techtalk] ethernet card problem

[Anne Wainwright]

Hello, Maria,

Just a thought that might or might not be applicable here, have you
disabled any onboard network card?

Anne

On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:23:30 -0800
Maria McKinley <maria at shadlen.org> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I was having intermittent problems with the onboard NIC of my file 
> server. People would complain about the network being very slow, and
> I would see something like this in the logs:
> 
> Mar  5 11:31:55 billie kernel: [548810.816011] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: 
> transmit timed out
> Mar  5 11:31:55 billie kernel: [548810.836475] r8169: eth1: link up
> 
> So, I installed an Intel PWLA8391GT 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI PRO/1000 GT 
> Desktop Adapter 1 x RJ45 - OEM, and started using it instead. So, now 
> occasionally when things get busy, the NIC just fails. I get no
> messages in the logs at all, and I have to log in to the machine
> locally, and restart networking, and then it seems to recover fine.
> The motherboard isn't terribly old, but I'm thinking that is what the
> problem must be. But, I really don't want to swap out the
> motherboard, so hoping someone will tell me something different to
> try. And any ideas why there are no log messages?
> 
> thanks,
> maria
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