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

Daniel Born born_daniel at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 28 12:49:32 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.

Well, in my onging effort to (correctly) debug this problem, this is what I know now:

Mythbuntu 9.10 32-bit fully updated (kernel 2.6.31.20): doesn't work reliably
Ubuntu 10.04 RC4 64-bit fully updated (kernel?): works reliably
Xubuntu 9.10 64-bit fully updated (kernel 2.6.31.20): works reliably
Mythbuntu 9.10 64-bit fully updated (kernel 2.6.31.20): doesn't work reliably

So it might appear to have a relationship with the Mythbuntu package.

My next step will be to reinstall Xubuntu 9.10 and install Mythtv on that.

Any suggestions, hints, things to try, etc. are welcome.

Thanks,
Daniel




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