Bug 22257 - RTL8139
Summary: RTL8139
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386 Linux
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Assignee: Michael K. Johnson
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Reported: 2000-12-13 17:53 UTC by Nicolas CROISET
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-06-05 22:44:43 UTC
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Description Nicolas CROISET 2000-12-13 17:53:12 UTC 
Hello,

if I make a big ftp the network stop, I must do the command /etc/init.d/network restart.

On the website : http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html, this bug had been solve.

Bye.
Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2000-12-14 08:49:02 UTC 
There is a new rtl8139 driver (8139too) that has been tested in 2.4 and is
backported to 2.2.
Jeff Garzik is maintaining this driver and it is included in 2.2.18. This driver
solves a lot (but not all)
of the problems this card causes. Several versions of rtl8139 still have trouble
when using a hub (as opposed
to a switch or a direct connection via a cross-cable), but that seems to be a
hardware issue and only results
in 1 or 2 seconds of no-network.

It might very well be possible to use this driver with the stock 2.2.16-22
kernel, I'll look into that tomorrow if
you want.
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