Realtek 8111 Gigabit Lan

I have a Realtek 8111 based gigabit lan chip on my motherboard but I
can't find a driver that works with it. I've had most success with
rtgnda121.zip but the system hangs after several hours. I think it's
trying to access the lan at the time, while it works it works well.
Tried Genmac as well but it says it can't find a compatible chip.

Has anyone had any success with other drivers for the 8111 or 8169?
It's an AMD based motherboard (Asus M2A-VM HDMI) so there isn't a
working acpi.psd for it and I'm loading acpi.psd with the /!NOD switch
and have basedev=acpica.add /N as the first line in my config.sys.

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Rodney Pont wrote:
> I have a Realtek 8111 based gigabit lan chip on my motherboard but I
> can't find a driver that works with it. I've had most success with
> rtgnda121.zip but the system hangs after several hours. I think it's
> trying to access the lan at the time, while it works it works well.
> Tried Genmac as well but it says it can't find a compatible chip.
> 
> Has anyone had any success with other drivers for the 8111 or 8169?
> It's an AMD based motherboard (Asus M2A-VM HDMI) so there isn't a
> working acpi.psd for it and I'm loading acpi.psd with the /!NOD switch
> and have basedev=acpica.add /N as the first line in my config.sys.

First of all I notice you mention you load acpica.add. What version of 
ACPI are you loading ? Upgrade and remove the driver.

Second contact the developer of the NIC driver, rtgnda121.zip. Read the 
docs. I hope you did because I have seen more people mentio the driver 
does not work. But with the contact I had with the developer he was very 
responsive and very helpfull.

He got little reply back. So if a driver does not work, contact the 
developer! Or did you do it already ?

Roderick Klein

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:32:04 +0200, Roderick Klein wrote:

>Rodney Pont wrote:
>> I have a Realtek 8111 based gigabit lan chip on my motherboard but I
>> can't find a driver that works with it. I've had most success with
>> rtgnda121.zip but the system hangs after several hours. I think it's
>> trying to access the lan at the time, while it works it works well.
>> Tried Genmac as well but it says it can't find a compatible chip.
>> 
>> Has anyone had any success with other drivers for the 8111 or 8169?
>> It's an AMD based motherboard (Asus M2A-VM HDMI) so there isn't a
>> working acpi.psd for it and I'm loading acpi.psd with the /!NOD switch
>> and have basedev=acpica.add /N as the first line in my config.sys.
>
>First of all I notice you mention you load acpica.add. What version of 
>ACPI are you loading ? Upgrade and remove the driver.

I'm using 3.08 but since I have an AMD chipset it isn't supported and
it's known that there are problems with it. I raised ticket #178 with
the ACPI developers when they asked for people with AMD chipsets back
in January. I am now running without the ACPI driver but haven't been
running long enough to be sure the system has stopped hanging.

>Second contact the developer of the NIC driver, rtgnda121.zip. Read the 
>docs. I hope you did because I have seen more people mentio the driver 
>does not work. But with the contact I had with the developer he was very 
>responsive and very helpfull.

I've got nothing to tell the developer so far. He's not going to be
able to do anything without a more detailed description than 'It hangs
after some hours'.

>He got little reply back. So if a driver does not work, contact the 
>developer! Or did you do it already ?

I'm also running Uniaud 114RC5 and Pauls HD uniaud32.sys and they are
also very much under development. I've seen the lock up occur when I
get an incoming email but that uses the network, generates a sound and
writes to disc so really it could be any of those drivers interacting
with ACPI or each other. I just wondered if anyone was using a
different driver so that I could eliminate something, possibly.

Thanks for your reply Roderick. My short term memory is bad at the
moment due to illness and your reply did kick me into checking if I had
tried removing ACPI. I couldn't remember so I've disabled it and the
system has been running for 7 hours now with rtgnda121 so maybe I
hadn't tried that. I didn't word my original post very well as I wasn't
trying to blame this driver and it sounds as if I was.

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Hello,

if you've got eCS v2.0 RC4 you may want to try the new version of GenMac 
as it install som other driver that seem to work on my computer at least.
It's a RTL 8168-driver that it use togheter with the Realtek 8111B, the 
only problem I've seen so far is traps in NETBEUI when I try to copy large 
amounts of data from two ther machines at the same time.

//Jan-Erik

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:45:55 UTC, jan-erik.larka@os2world.com 
(Jan-Erik L„rka) wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> if you've got eCS v2.0 RC4 you may want to try the new version of GenMac 
> as it install som other driver that seem to work on my computer at least.
> It's a RTL 8168-driver that it use togheter with the Realtek 8111B, the 
> only problem I've seen so far is traps in NETBEUI when I try to copy large

> amounts of data from two ther machines at the same time.

I am also using this driver. I haven't tested fully, but I'vd copied 
small files (1 GB) with NETBEUI with no traps. The trap on large files
seems to be present in many if not most OS/2 network drivers. I have 
other GenMac drivers that do not have the bug. (but am I sure -- this 
is a difficult bug to be sure, because it takes a really large file 
transfer to set it off.)

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