[mythtv-users] Strange networking issue with Acer Revo AR1600 on GBit lan

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Mon Apr 26 17:10:02 UTC 2010


On 04/26/2010 10:42 AM, James Crow wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Daniel Born <born_daniel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Could it be the network driver (forcedeth) that's been upgraded on 10.04?
>>
> 
> I remember having all sorts of issues with the forcedeth driver back
> in (AFAIR) 7.04 and 7.10 days. It was so bad that for a while I had to
> use a PCI NIC. I do not remember exactly which motherboard I had that
> was causing the problems.

There have been a lot of changes in forcedeth in recent kernels. As mine
works fine on a 100 Mb/s network with kernel 2.6.29, I assume that most
of the modifications have been for 1000 Mb/s nets.

Larry



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