On 12/28/11 13:24, Robin Axelsson wrote:
After a fresh install of OI 151a I discovered that the network
connection fails intermittently. Firefox stalls in OI, SSH sessions
spontaneously get severed, internet/network availability goes on and
off with this connection.
Basically the behaviour is the same as when I was running earlier
builds of OpenSolaris on a machine with the RTL8111DL chip. When
asking the question on the Osol forums the reply was that this was a
known bug and the recommendation was to get an Intel based NIC. Later
I was informed that this bug was resolved in later builds of
OpenSolaris. So when I upgraded to build 134, the RTL8111DL started
working without problems. I even upgraded to OpenIndiana 148 and still
no problems.
Now I have replaced the motherboard on that system to a motherboard
with the RTL8111E chip. Since my hard drive died I have done a fresh
install of OI 151a on a new hard drive and once again this network bug
has woken up from its apparently dormant state.
Has someone accidentally put an old version of the rge driver into the
OI distribution? If not, does anyone have any idea as to why this
problem has come back?
I tried to replace the rge driver with the gani 2.6.8 driver but the
problem was slightly worse on the gani driver. Even my VMs hang when
using the gani0 connection (bridged networking on VBox).
I have tried using an Intel network card with the e1000g driver and it
has shown no problems whatsoever on my system.
So is this problem fixable or will I have to use Intel NICs with my
system?
Robin.
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i have read it is troublesome to get the rge driver working. maybe,
the rge driver fixes do not cover the RTL8112E chipset.
This article mentions a few work around for opensolaris, that may
apply to OI. However, i think you are better of using the intel nic
since you are not having problems.
http://sigtar.com/2009/02/12/opensolaris-rtl81118168b-issues/
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