Opened 15 months ago

Last modified 2 weeks ago

#18166 new bug

Beta 4: network connection is constantly being activated and deactivated

Reported by: lelldorin Owned by: nobody
Priority: normal Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Drivers/Network/rtl81xx Version: R1/beta4
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description (last modified by lelldorin)

My Realtek RTL 8188EU network card is not recognized correctly on 32 bit and 64 bit, because the connection is constantly being connected and then losing the connection again.

On Beta 3 there were no problems at all.

Hrev Beta 4 56578+59 (Update not possible, because instable network)

Attachments (3)

beta3_55181+67_syslog (308.5 KB ) - added by lelldorin 15 months ago.
beta 3 syslog
beta4_56578+59_syslog (217.3 KB ) - added by lelldorin 15 months ago.
beta 4 syslog
syslog (33.2 KB ) - added by bruno 15 months ago.
syslog 32bit beta4

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Change History (22)

comment:1 by lelldorin, 15 months ago

Description: modified (diff)

comment:2 by waddlesplash, 15 months ago

Component: - GeneralDrivers/Network/realtekwifi
Owner: changed from nobody to waddlesplash
Priority: highnormal

Syslog please, from both systems.

comment:3 by pulkomandy, 15 months ago

Milestone: R1/beta4R1/beta5

by lelldorin, 15 months ago

Attachment: beta3_55181+67_syslog added

beta 3 syslog

by lelldorin, 15 months ago

Attachment: beta4_56578+59_syslog added

beta 4 syslog

comment:4 by lelldorin, 15 months ago

where can i find the driver for the network card in the beta 3 so i can test if the beta 4 is running without problems with the driver?

comment:5 by waddlesplash, 15 months ago

Driver ABI changed between beta3 and beta4, you will likely not be able to run the old driver on the new system.

in reply to:  5 comment:6 by lelldorin, 15 months ago

Replying to waddlesplash:

Driver ABI changed between beta3 and beta4, you will likely not be able to run the old driver on the new system.

then I'll probably have to wait for the beta 5, which is a pity

comment:7 by waddlesplash, 15 months ago

The problem appears to be:

KERN: [net/rtl81xx/0] watchdog timeout
KERN: /dev/net/rtl81xx/0: link down, media 0x22 quality 1000 speed 0
KERN: /dev/net/rtl81xx/0: link up, media 0x900030 quality 1000 speed 1000000000

THe device is:

KERN: PCI:   vendor 10ec: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
KERN: PCI:   device 8168: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller

comment:8 by waddlesplash, 15 months ago

The changes to this driver between beta3 and beta4 were very insignificant. Perhaps the new MTU changes broke something. You can try setting a lower MTU and see if it stops the timeouts.

in reply to:  8 comment:9 by lelldorin, 15 months ago

Replying to waddlesplash:

The changes to this driver between beta3 and beta4 were very insignificant. Perhaps the new MTU changes broke something. You can try setting a lower MTU and see if it stops the timeouts.

???

How to do that?

comment:10 by waddlesplash, 15 months ago

via ifconfig.

in reply to:  10 comment:11 by lelldorin, 15 months ago

Replying to waddlesplash:

via ifconfig.

Please give a answer for a user not for a scripting guy. I do not understand to make ifconfig doing that for me.

comment:12 by bipolar, 15 months ago

@lelldorin:

I was able to change the MTU from my ipro1000 network interface, from its original 9004 value, to 1024, like this:

> ifconfig /dev/net/ipro1000/0 mtu 1024

So, try with > ifconfig /dev/net/rtl81xx/0 mtu nnnn (replacing nnnn with the value you want, of course).

Maybe first use ifconfig without parameters to see what it is using by default?

Hope that helps!

Last edited 15 months ago by bipolar (previous) (diff)

comment:13 by kim1963, 15 months ago

I have the same network card.

device Network controller (Ethernet controller) [2|0|0]

vendor 10ec: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

device 8168: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Haiku 64 bit hrev56578+64

IP addresses of the local network are installed statically. The network works without problems.

~> ifconfig /dev/net/rtl81xx/0

Hardware type: Ethernet, Address: 00:e0:67:20:3f:02 Media type: 1 GBit, 1000BASE-T inet addr: 192.168.1.107, Bcast: 192.168.1.255, Mask: 255.255.255.0 MTU: 9004, Metric: 0, up broadcast link Receive: 6983 packets, 0 errors, 5222413 bytes, 0 mcasts, 0 dropped Transmit: 6213 packets, 0 errors, 1133069 bytes, 0 mcasts, 0 dropped Collisions: 0

Last edited 15 months ago by kim1963 (previous) (diff)

comment:14 by kim1963, 15 months ago

It is possible that the problem with the settings of the router MTU?

by bruno, 15 months ago

Attachment: syslog added

syslog 32bit beta4

comment:15 by bruno, 15 months ago

I have this problems too: device Network controller (Ethernet controller) [2|0|0]

vendor 10ec: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. device 8139: RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter

If I change the MTU to 1024 the network connection seems to get better! In Terminal I typed: ifconfig /dev/net/rtl8139/0 mtu 1504 Works somewhat but not sure if it is the best option.

I used Web+ for upload the syslog... gnome didnt do it°!

What else to do to check this connection out? syslog?

in reply to:  12 ; comment:16 by lelldorin, 15 months ago

Replying to bipolar:

@lelldorin:

I was able to change the MTU from my ipro1000 network interface, from its original 9004 value, to 1024, like this:

> ifconfig /dev/net/ipro1000/0 mtu 1024

So, try with > ifconfig /dev/net/rtl81xx/0 mtu nnnn (replacing nnnn with the value you want, of course).

Maybe first use ifconfig without parameters to see what it is using by default?

Hope that helps!

Thanks but did not solve the problem. I add the network card as unsupported into the hardwarelist.

in reply to:  16 comment:17 by bipolar, 15 months ago

Replying to lelldorin:

I add the network card as unsupported into the hardwarelist.

I, as well as kim1963 a few comments above, also have the same card (10ec:8168), and it works for both of us, so... maybe marked as "may or may not work" depending on your motherboard?

Maybe a subsystem_id/subvendor/hw-revision distinction?

Mine is specifically: Vendor=0x10ec Device=0x8168, subsystem_id=0x2307 subsystem_vendor_id=0x1562 Rev=02.

Last edited 15 months ago by bipolar (previous) (diff)

comment:18 by waddlesplash, 2 months ago

lelldorin: Is there any change on a recent nightly here? If not, did you try and pinpoint when the problem started? Without more information, this won't be getting fixed.

comment:19 by waddlesplash, 2 weeks ago

Component: Drivers/Network/realtekwifiDrivers/Network/rtl81xx
Milestone: R1/beta5Unscheduled
Owner: changed from waddlesplash to nobody

No reply. Moving out of beta5 milestone.

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