Topic: 1Gbit/s Network Card

[gavinm]

I have (had) SME7 working fine on an Asus mboard with an onboard 1Gb LAN Marvell 88E8053 PCI Express LAN Controller.  It was all working fine for about 6 weeks.
Last week I noticed there were yum updates and applied them - now its not working fine!  I use the system to backup a Windows 2003 data server overnight - about 50GB data (mount the Win shares on SME and them copy the files across into an ibay files folder).  Now after about 2 hours of copying I start to get /var/log/messages entries of :

NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: Transmit timed out
Sky2 transmit interrupt missed? recovered

These occur every about 12 minutes.

Yesterday there was another yum update - but this hasn't fixed it!

Any ideas gratefully recd (Can updates be de-installed?)

Gavin

[byte]

Any ideas gratefully recd (Can updates be de-installed?)

Please report to Bug Tracker as it may be a problem with the base, I know a kernel was released which maybe causing other (not known yet) problems. Thanks.

[mercyh]

You could try selecting the older kernel at the boot screen. This would be a temporary fix but if it works you wouldn't need to uninstall anything. If you are only using this as backup and it is not webfacing you may not have an acute need for the security updates.

[gavinm]

Thanks for those replies - sorry I've taken so long to reply - but I'm now travelling on business in Germany.

Please report to Bug Tracker as it may be a problem with the base

Byte - I'll take your advice and post this as a bug and see what happens.

You could try selecting the older kernel at the boot screen

mercyh - Great I never thought of that!  I'll try on my return tomorrow (As I said, I have downloaded another update hoping that might fix the problem - so I'll have to check if only 1 previous kernel is kept or if I can load even older ones)
I take your point about maybe not needing the updates - but as I'm relatively new to SME Server I thought it was a good idea to keep updated - also I plan to check out the email collection (with antivurus / antispam services), so the system is configured as a server / gateway already and the external interface does have a direct internet connection.  (It seems to be ok - but its a very standard old 10M/bit/s ethernet card - probably based on Realtek 8029 chip)

Thanks for your response ...

Gavin