[mythtv-users] SOLVED Random lockups on Mythbackend

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Giggins" <seven at seven.dorksville.net>

> On 11 April 2011 10:08, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> > For what it's worth, I've only ever had 2 problems in 20 years with
> > Realtek
> > NICs; one was an 8139c that was a bad card, and the other, on a
> > motherboard
> > (ASUS, I think) that... no, that wasn't even a Realtek; in that
> > case, the
> > Realtek was the *fix* (an 8169 on a PCI card, replacing dual
> > Gigabits
> > for which the SuSE 11.2 drivers were simply too new, and locked the
> > box up
> > hard regularly, but not repeatably).
> 
> I had an issues with an onboard sky2 based NIC on an intel P4
> motherboard,
> if it had any sort of high network load the network would stop
> functioning
> until you restarted the network services.

Right in one; it was a sky2 chip; don't remember precisely which one.

Cheers,
-- jra