Network halts during emerge and downloading <-- HELP

DJPooky · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 5 Location: Fidalgo Island

I installed gentoo about 3 months ago and am just now getting around to really trying to fix it. Here's the problem:

While installing, boooting from the CD, all of my emerges worked just fine. There wasn't any lag, or freezing or anything. But now that I've installed it, my internet connection will stop after a few minutes of downloading. eth0 just stops working for apparently no reason. The logs show nothing crashing, or any errors.
I had this problem in WindowsXP, but it was resolved when I reverted to 2kPro, so it's not a hardware thing.

I'm running th AMD64 version if that matters.

Any help is GREATLY appreciated.

Thx,

Pooky

DJPooky · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 5 Location: Fidalgo Island

Nevermind. I'm re-installing Gentoo. I hope it works.

DJPooky · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 5 Location: Fidalgo Island

Ok. I'm still having troubles. I fresh installed and I have the EXACT same problem. All my emerges are stopping, the downloads are stopping. Basiclly all internet activity just stops for no reason.

I really need help with this or I'm gonna have to go back to Mandrake or something.

rav · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 114

What network card? What kernel? What kernel module?

DJPooky · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 5 Location: Fidalgo Island

Realtek RTL8169/8110
2.8.7-r14 (I think)
r8169

platojones · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 2:18 pm Post subject:

I wonder if there is some issue with the 8169 module? I was having the same problem you describe here, except I have a laptop and am running the PCMCIA network drivers. I did notice that I had the 8169 module enabled in my kernel config somehow. I turned it off, since it shouldn't have been turned on anyway, and now my link stays up consistently. Just a thought.

gnuageux · Veteran Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 1201

Ive had nothing but problems @ home with a realtek card too. Course I was using a different module and all, but still. When this happens what does ifconfig return?
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gcostanz · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:05 pm Post subject:

You know, this is odd, but I'm having the same problem. I'm using a laptop with pcmcia with 3com 3c574 compiled into kernel 2.6.7-gentoo-r11. My network connection just freezes for no apparrent reason. And the really weird thing is that it will un-freeze when I open a new xterm. Just open the xterm, nothing else.

I thought I had a flakey network, but my pings come back with 0% loss. I really have trouble rsyncing. It seems to be really sensative to this network freezing.

As soon as I open a terminal to type ifconfig and check on network status, that act unfreezes the network. It's an annoying problem at the moment, but I'd like to get to the bottom of this. Any thoughts?

platojones · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:22 pm Post subject:

Based on the driver you are using (3c574), I assume this is a laptop using pcmcia. Well, this might be a pcmcia issue. I discovered a number of unrelated problems with pcmcia when I tried to get bluetooth going on my laptop. They seemed to be all fixed, but the common thread with all these problems, including mine, seems to be pcmcia at the moment. Think I'll go on another google expedition...