[mythtv-users] Ceton InfiniTV and Realtek Ethernet conflict

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Andre <mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 29 Jul 2011, at 05:12, John Haller wrote:
>>
>> > The combination of InfiniTV and Realtek 8169 Gigabit Ethernet built
>> > into my motherboard don't seem to get along.
>>
>> If that's a Gigabyte board there are known problems with that nic and any
>> significant simultaneous bus activity. There is an updated driver on the
>> realtek website that has dramatically improved reliability for me, not fixed
>> completely but no lockups on big nfs transfers anymore.
>>
>>
>>
>> > As I mentioned earlier, I
>> > was having pixellation problems. After exchanging mail with Austin at
>> > Ceton, I realized that if I did things which exercised the network, I
>> > had worse problems. Removing the network jack from my NIC solved all
>> > the problems, although that means my frontend is isolated from the
>> > rest of my network. I'm not sure if the problem is that the NIC is a
>> > PCI NIC, or Realtek specifically. I only have 2 PCI Express slots, and
>> > one is for the Ceton, and the other is for the video card, so I'm in
>> > trouble if I need a PCI Express NIC.
>>
>> Same here, most modern motherboards don't really have many spare slots!
>>
>>
>>
>> > I'll try a different NIC this
>> > weekend. My existing spare NIC is also a Realtek.
>>
>> There's more detail in the Ubuntu forums.
>>
>> Andre
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>
> Should I avoid a Gigabit board with a Realtek NIC?  Is this a Linux
> specific problem?
>
> -Tom
>

Please ignore my moronic post for misreading that this was about a specific
Realtek NIC and typing Gigabit instead of Gigabyte.  I need more coffee.

-Tom
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