Hi,
I have an older AMD Phenom II motherboard with a new HD6450 to replace
an older card that failed. While video works fine with this new card,
it somehow causes the ethernet to fail. I've tried the card in the two
different x4 slots that are available, and it doesn't make a
difference.
This is an onboard ethernet controller that was otherwise working
fine. There's just no link light, and while I can configure it
manually with ifconfig, it never detects a link.
I can get it to work temporarily with another ethernet card, but this
was pulled from another machine.
Could this just be a general incompatibility? Or is there perhaps
something I can change? I tried investigating the computer's BIOS and
there really isn't much to change in terms of IRQ assignments or
otherwise.
Since the computer and Linux recognizes it, maybe there's something
more that can be done? Maybe loading a different rtl8169 driver would
work differently?
Here's the info from lspci:
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] Caicos PRO [Radeon HD 7450] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 809a
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 3, NUMA node 0
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at fdfc0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
I/O ports at ce00 [size=256]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1
Len=010 <?>
Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
Kernel modules: radeon
03:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Caicos
HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6450 / 7450/8450/8490 OEM / R5 230/235/235X OEM]
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device aa98
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 26, NUMA node 0
Memory at fdffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1
Len=010 <?>
Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Onboard Ethernet
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17, NUMA node 0
I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
Memory at fddff000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at fdde0000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fde00000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/2 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01
Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=2 Masked-
Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 12-34-56-78-12-34-56-78
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169
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