Re: [CentOS] Problem with ethernet card: r8169.

On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 01:38:30PM +0200, Rafał Radecki wrote:

I have random network connectivity problems only reboot helps for some time, then the problem returns.

I've added irqpoll option to kernel line in grub.conf but it hasn't helped. I've checked options in bios but haven't found anything interesting.

Any clues what to do next?

Hello Rafal,

can you please check the elrepo.org version of the 8169 driver? For CentOS5: elrepo/el5/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-r8169-6.016.00-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

This changes this one kernel network driver to a completely different version, but is said to help a lot... (I have one such network card, but that seems to work stable with the normal/stock CentOS-6 version.)

best regards,

Florian La Roche