I have installed SUSE Linux 10.2 on a PC having an Asus P5LD2 motherboard. Everything works well except of network connections. The motherboard has an integrated Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet controller and there is an RTL8139 ethernet card installed. Linux has both recognized. I have tried to use only one of them (no matter which), but always happens the same: the connection losts after a couple of hours or more often there is no connection after startup. It means that other PC-s in the LAN can't ping the Linux PC and in turn. I've read on more sites that this integrated controller doesn't work well but seemingly the card doesn't too. Or there is another problem somewhere.

The result of ifconfig:

eth1
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:13:92:AB
inet addr:192.168.8.1 Bcast:192.168.8.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:244527 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:474072 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:43837600 (41.8 Mb) TX bytes:678103085 (646.6 Mb)
Interrupt:10


lo
Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1144 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1144 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100762 (98.4 Kb) TX bytes:100762 (98.4 Kb)

Thanks

Do you know that you can manually restart the network cards by issuing the root command /etc/init.d/network restart
I don't know why the connection would be dropping, but you could set the above command as a cron job to run every two hours as a work around

Hi,

thanks for the advice, but the command /etc/init.d/network restart doesn't solve the problem.

quick thought, maybe this is an irq conflict?
FWIW