[OpenIndiana-discuss] Network (RTL8111/8168) not working properly on OpenIndiana 151a

[Edward Martinez]

On 12/28/11 13:24, Robin Axelsson wrote:
> After a fresh install of OI 151a I discovered that the network 
> connection fails intermittently. Firefox stalls in OI, SSH sessions 
> spontaneously get severed, internet/network availability goes on and 
> off with this connection.
>
> Basically the behaviour is the same as when I was running earlier 
> builds of OpenSolaris on a machine with the RTL8111DL chip. When 
> asking the question on the Osol forums the reply was that this was a 
> known bug and the recommendation was to get an Intel based NIC. Later 
> I was informed that this bug was resolved in later builds of 
> OpenSolaris. So when I upgraded to build 134, the RTL8111DL started 
> working without problems. I even upgraded to OpenIndiana 148 and still 
> no problems.
>
> Now I have replaced the motherboard on that system to a motherboard 
> with the RTL8111E chip. Since my hard drive died I have done a fresh 
> install of OI 151a on a new hard drive and once again this network bug 
> has woken up from its apparently dormant state.
>
> Has someone accidentally put an old version of the rge driver into the 
> OI distribution? If not, does anyone have any idea as to why this 
> problem has come back?
>
> I tried to replace the rge driver with the gani 2.6.8 driver but the 
> problem was slightly worse on the gani driver. Even my VMs hang when 
> using the gani0 connection  (bridged networking on VBox).
>
> I have tried using an Intel network card with the e1000g driver and it 
> has shown no problems whatsoever on my system.
>
> So is this problem fixable or will I have to use Intel NICs with my 
> system?
>
> Robin.
>
>
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   i have read it is troublesome to get the rge driver working. maybe,  
the rge driver fixes do not cover the  RTL8112E chipset.

   This article mentions a few work around for opensolaris, that may 
apply to OI. However, i think you are better of using the intel nic 
since you are not having problems.

    http://sigtar.com/2009/02/12/opensolaris-rtl81118168b-issues/