[mythtv-users] 9.04 woes with Marvell 88E8056 NIC

[C.T. Paterson]

2009/4/30 Deyan <mythtv at bektchiev.net>:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:32 PM, C.T. Paterson <i.adore.my.64 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>
> I bought the exact same board 18 months ago and promptly returned it
> after a couple of days when I found out that the Marvell driver was
> not working and did not want to wait for it to stabilize (even the one
> that Marvell ships was buggy and was causing Kernel Oops...).
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=13-131-187&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&Page=1&Keywords=Linux
>
> It was a great board on paper but sadly bad chipset for the network card.

My purchase was in the same timeframe.  The driver for 8.04 seemed to
be dodgy, so I just went with a PCI NIC (I had a bunch lying around)
for the time being, and was delighted to discover that the driver in
8.10 was solid.

I don't know why things went south in 9.04, and to be fair I don't
*know* it's the driver as opposed to the network manager or something
else in the chain.  I'll watch the skies for news that things have
gotten better; although to be honest my main reason for upgrading to
9.04 was because of how easy it was going to be to create all the
themes I was never going to get around to.

Cheers.

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