on 7-12-2008 9:00 AM Miguel Filho spake the following:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Emmanuel Borlet emmanuel.borlet@yoni.fr wrote:
Hello,
We can see # lspci 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
Change the network card, period. I have a laptop with an R8168 and even using kernel 2.6.25 the card just suddenly stops working. If I do an rsync on a LAN, the card holds up to 300mb of data transfer and stops working again. I always have to reboot. No errors, nothing. I have seen many people complaining about this card on the IRC channel too.
Miguel
I don't know if it is the chipset in general, or that the manufacturers that use these chips skimp on cache memory, but I have always had less than stellar performance with realtek cards.