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Old 01-04-2009, 12:19 AM   #1
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network card or mainboard frustration

I'm running mint 6 and its great. I can download, stream just about anything. That is anything that doesn't saturate my internet conection. When i'm downloading at peak speed, the mouse chugs around the desktop and the desktop is frozen, as well as running aplications. sometimes its just the desktop that is frozen and the mouse runs fine.
I've noticed this in windows as well as ubuntu hardy and linux mint 6.
My network connection is onboard, and I'm wondering if I should buy a new/used network pci card, or if my mainboard is toast.
 
Old 01-04-2009, 07:55 AM   #2
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Difficult to know for sure without knowing the mobo and nic chipset in question.
However - sounds ike irq conflicts - try booting wih irqpoll on the kernel line. Could be borked BIOS - flash it to the latest, and go through the CMOS switching off special features.
 
Old 01-04-2009, 11:59 PM   #3
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Difficult to know for sure without knowing the mobo and nic chipset in question.
However - sounds ike irq conflicts - try booting wih irqpoll on the kernel line. Could be borked BIOS - flash it to the latest, and go through the CMOS switching off special features.
I checked in the cmos and irq are shared between usb, network, and something else I can't remember at the moment.. I was worried to change irq for existing hardware, so that I can change the irq thats shared for my network card.

I'm going to have to wait to flash the bios since I don't have the media to put it on.

I'm not sure where to put irqpoll, but I will search the net for it.

I'll let you know what happens.
 
Old 01-05-2009, 12:49 AM   #4
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irqpoll didn't help. Wondering if theres a tool to find out what my motherboard is.
 
Old 01-05-2009, 06:35 AM   #5
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That's easy

http://www.wimsbios.com/awardnumbers.jsp
 
Old 01-05-2009, 08:21 AM   #6
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lshw should be able to tell you what motherboardis in your system ..
 
Old 01-05-2009, 11:26 AM   #7
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lshw should be able to tell you what motherboardis in your system ..
Code:
    description: Mini Tower Computer
    product: HP d530 CMT(DK667A)
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    serial: USU41008KW
    width: 32 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3 smp-1.4 smp
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=mini-tower cpus=1 uuid=E6ADD6BC-9474-D811-BBD8-7F665F0A000E
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: 085Ch
       vendor: Hewlett-Packard
       physical id: 0
       serial: USU41008KW
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Hewlett-Packard
          physical id: 1
          version: 786B2 v1.11 (07/10/2003)
          size: 128KiB
          capacity: 448KiB
          capabilities: pci pnp upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect edd int13floppytoshiba int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer acpi usb agp ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification netboot
     *-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 5
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: 15.2.9
          slot: XU1 PROCESSOR
          size: 2600MHz
          capacity: 3200MHz
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 800MHz
          capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up pebs bts cid xtpr
          configuration: id=0
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: 6
             slot: Internal L1 Cache
             size: 8KiB
             capacity: 20KiB
             capabilities: burst internal write-back data
        *-cache:1
             description: L2 cache
             physical id: 7
             slot: Cache L2
             size: 512KiB
             capacity: 4MiB
             capabilities: burst internal write-back data
     *-memory:0
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 27
          slot: System board or motherboard
        *-bank:0
             description: DIMM DDR Synchronous [empty]
             vendor: JEDEC ID:
             physical id: 0
             slot: DIMM1
        *-bank:1
             description: DIMM DDR Synchronous 400 MHz (2.5 ns)
             product: K
             vendor: JEDEC ID:7F 98 00 00 00 00 00 00
             physical id: 1
             serial: 017D1A68
             slot: DIMM2
             size: 512MiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 400MHz (2.5ns)
        *-bank:2
             description: DIMM DDR Synchronous [empty]
             vendor: JEDEC ID:
             physical id: 2
             slot: DIMM3
        *-bank:3
             description: DIMM DDR Synchronous 266 MHz (3.8 ns)
             product: SM5646485D8N6CHIBH
             vendor: JEDEC ID:7F 94 FF FF FF FF FF FF
             physical id: 3
             serial: 00000000
             slot: DIMM4
             size: 512MiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 266MHz (3.8ns)
     *-memory:1 UNCLAIMED
          description: Flash Memory
          physical id: 28
          slot: System board or motherboard
          capacity: 512KiB
        *-bank UNCLAIMED
             description: Chip FLASH Non-volatile
             physical id: 0
             slot: SYSTEM ROM
             size: 512KiB
             width: 4 bits
     *-memory:2 UNCLAIMED
          physical id: 0
     *-memory:3 UNCLAIMED
          physical id: 2
     *-pci
          description: Host bridge
          product: 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface
          vendor: Intel Corporation
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 02
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          configuration: driver=agpgart-intel module=intel_agp
        *-display UNCLAIMED
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
        *-usb:0
             description: USB Controller
             product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 module=uhci_hcd
        *-usb:1
             description: USB Controller
             product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 module=uhci_hcd
        *-usb:2
             description: USB Controller
             product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 module=uhci_hcd
        *-usb:3
             description: USB Controller
             product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.7
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm debug bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0 module=ehci_hcd
        *-pci
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 82801 PCI Bridge
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1e
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
             version: c2
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci bus_master
           *-network
                description: Ethernet interface
                product: NetXtreme BCM5782 Gigabit Ethernet
                vendor: Broadcom Corporation
                physical id: 2
                bus info: pci@0000:05:02.0
                logical name: eth0
                version: 03
                serial: 00:0e:7f:66:5f:0a
                size: 100MB/s
                capacity: 1GB/s
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 66MHz
                capabilities: pm vpd msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
                configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.94 duplex=full firmware=5782-v3.13 latency=64 link=yes mingnt=64 module=tg3 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
        *-isa
             description: ISA bridge
             product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: isa bus_master
             configuration: latency=0
        *-ide:0
             description: IDE interface
             product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.1
             logical name: scsi0
             logical name: scsi1
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: ide bus_master emulated
             configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0 module=ata_piix
           *-disk
                description: ATA Disk
                product: WDC WD800JB-00JJ
                vendor: Western Digital
                physical id: 0
                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/sda
                version: 05.0
                serial: WD-WCAM9V151050
                size: 74GiB (80GB)
                capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
                configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=000691c3
              *-volume:0
                   description: EXT3 volume
                   vendor: Linux
                   physical id: 1
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
                   logical name: /dev/sda1
                   logical name: /
                   logical name: /dev/.static/dev
                   version: 1.0
                   serial: ff9e44fe-b320-4358-940f-56e710d7d343
                   size: 71GiB
                   capacity: 71GiB
                   capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files recover ext3 ext2 initialized
                   configuration: created=2008-12-12 02:51:30 filesystem=ext3 modified=2009-01-05 04:37:25 mount.fstype=ext3 mount.options=ro,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered mounted=2009-01-05 01:45:26 state=mounted
              *-volume:1
                   description: Extended partition
                   physical id: 2
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2
                   logical name: /dev/sda2
                   size: 2933MiB
                   capacity: 2933MiB
                   capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
                 *-logicalvolume
                      description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
                      physical id: 5
                      logical name: /dev/sda5
                      capacity: 2933MiB
                      capabilities: nofs
           *-cdrom
                description: DVD reader
                physical id: 1
                bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/cdrom
                logical name: /dev/dvd
                logical name: /dev/scd0
                logical name: /dev/sr0
                capabilities: audio dvd
                configuration: status=nodisc
        *-ide:1
             description: IDE interface
             product: 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ide bus_master
             configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0 module=ata_piix
        *-serial UNCLAIMED
             description: SMBus
             product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             configuration: latency=0
        *-multimedia
             description: Multimedia audio controller
             product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.5
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.5
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=Intel ICH latency=0 module=snd_intel8x0
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 1
       logical name: pan0
       serial: 3e:31:66:79:1f:bb
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A
I hope this will be able to help you guys help me :P
 
Old 01-05-2009, 02:01 PM   #8
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Ahh ye olde Broadcom NetExtreme II.. so I imagine you are running the bnx2 driver ?
I have those NIC's in one of my HP servers and don't have any issues with them.

you really shouldn't be having troubles with that NIC..

could you post the output of modinfo bnx2


That NIC does have proprietary firmware, which is included in the kernel module for older kernels.. Debian has split the firmware from the driver module starting with 2.6.24, and putting the firmware in a seperate package. I don't know if any other distros are pulling binary firmware out of the kernel or not.. (I agree with Debian, Firmware doesn't belong there in the first place)
 
Old 01-05-2009, 04:16 PM   #9
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Ahh ye olde Broadcom NetExtreme II.. so I imagine you are running the bnx2 driver ?
I have those NIC's in one of my HP servers and don't have any issues with them.

you really shouldn't be having troubles with that NIC..

could you post the output of modinfo bnx2


That NIC does have proprietary firmware, which is included in the kernel module for older kernels.. Debian has split the firmware from the driver module starting with 2.6.24, and putting the firmware in a seperate package. I don't know if any other distros are pulling binary firmware out of the kernel or not.. (I agree with Debian, Firmware doesn't belong there in the first place)
Code:
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/kernel/drivers/net/bnx2.ko
version:        1.8.0
license:        GPL
description:    Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706/5708/5709 Driver
author:         Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
srcversion:     2C2B26DBE75FDC756982B92
alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000163Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000163Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000014E4d00001639sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000014E4d000016ACsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000014E4d000016AAsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000014E4d000016AAsv0000103Csd00003102bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000164Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000164Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000164Asv0000103Csd00003106bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000164Asv0000103Csd00003101bc*sc*i*
depends:        
vermagic:       2.6.27-7-generic SMP mod_unload modversions 586 
parm:           disable_msi:Disable Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI) (int)
 
Old 01-05-2009, 09:29 PM   #10
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Hmm theres certainly been a lot of recent patches to this driver. don't know if that's good or bad, or if any of those would be related to your issue...

http://marc.info/?a=108541984900005&r=1&w=2

he is up to driver version 1.90 but I can't locate the source anywhere..
Last edited by farslayer; 01-05-2009 at 09:30 PM.
 
Old 01-07-2009, 01:20 PM   #11
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Hmm theres certainly been a lot of recent patches to this driver. don't know if that's good or bad, or if any of those would be related to your issue...

http://marc.info/?a=108541984900005&r=1&w=2

he is up to driver version 1.90 but I can't locate the source anywhere..
would you suggest that I just buy a new network card?
 
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That NIC is popular enough that you shouldn't really be having that many issues.. Like I mentioned before, I have that same Integrated NIC in one of my servers and it works flawlessly, but of course that system is running Debian Stable, and that distro is nothing if not tested thoroughly to ensure everything works properly and is stable.

If it's really giving you that much grief and you can't find an updated driver/kernel to solve the issue, then a replacement NIC would be an option. But then I would recommend something from intel, a e1000 card perhaps. I shy away from cheap and no-name components, and you KNOW an intel card will work.
 
  


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