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Hardware:

Asrock A330GC MoBo? with ATOM CPU. Onboard Realtek Gigabit LAN 8111DL chip. (+ an extra 8139 card in PCI slot).

It seems that output goes out to network fine, but the driver ignores input 75% of the time.

When I try to ping another PC on network, it does send out the pings, and other PC answers all the time - but the answers are never 'received'. Then, after maybe 100 pings, driver suddenly works for a little time and then stops again. Out of 1000 pings - 75% is lost.

It looks like there is open for input in 15 secs, and then closed again for 45 secs.

It is possible to pull a web page down, if I hit the right moment.

Tried NETBEUI too - it is basically the same. If I hit the right moment, I can view resources from net; but otherwise nothing comes in.

I tried RXCHAIN=NO - but it didn't change anything.

I have a new PC with a Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 motherboard. According to the insert included in the manual, I have a Realtek 8111E/F LAN adapter. MultiMac? 8169 0.0.4 successfully recognizes the card, but seems to fail at something (DHCP?) during boot (there is a >60 second pause where I expect DHCP to be happening). I can get one request out on Firefox before the connection goes dead.

netstat -n shows an all-zero MAC. I did use MPTS to manually set the MAC, but it did not help. In fact, even after setting that, netstat still shows an all-zero MAC.

I'm not sure what trace files you'll want (if any) so just ask.

I got a new Lenovo ThinkPad? L530. It has a Realtek "Device 8168h RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller in it" (from PCI.EXE). I tried Multimac from r8169-0.2.1.wpi. It loads okay, and most of the time, it will get an address from my router, using DHCP. However if I actually try to use it, the machine hangs hard. The only option is to force a power off. I also tried the older multimac driver (R8110), but it hung hard when the driver loaded. I then tried two GENMAC drivers, with no success. The driver from rtgnda13.zip does work, but seems to have a couple of minor problems. Of course, it works perfectly in Win7 Pro 64.

By "actually try to use it", I mean: I loaded Firefox (10.0.12esr), which has a home page of a file on my system. As soon as I try to go to a URL on the internet, I see the Pulse widget indicate about 60% IRQ load. That lasts for about 5 seconds, then the machine is locked. The mouse won't even move. The only way out is forced power off. I also, eventually, see the 60% IRQ load, if I just let the machine sit idle (probably the router doing something), followed shortly by the hard hang.

I traced the operation on my router, but all it shows is the initial connection, which succeeded.

I loaded the TRACE R8169 driver, but since the machine is locked, I can do nothing with it. I did take a trace after a reboot, without actually trying to use the network interface (not sure if it will help).

PCI.EXE output is in L530.txt. I included the whole thing, since this is a relatively new machine, with UEFI BIOS.

Trace output is in L530_10EC_8168.ftf.

Probably useless information: I did find a hit (that I can't find again) that sounds exactly the same in SUSE linux. It mentioned that UBUNTU linux does NOT have the problem.