Compile network driver

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Ok, so when server fails the only thing that i can do is wait?
 
Yes but i cant do that, the server comes with that network card, i cant change it...
 
_El_Chojin_ said:
Yes but i cant do that, the server comes with that network card, i cant change it...
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Sorry for that but realtek has a buggy driver in the Linux Kernels and thats their fault.

The second fault is people buying such not Linux supported cards for Linux servers.

I read the article on the Hetzner wiki but I think its not possible to encourage end users to compile a custom Kernel - that's simple to difficult (and also to maintain) and in the case of Proxmox VE it will not work either.

There are no issues with most Intel cards, so go for this.
 
tom said:
Sorry for that but realtek has a buggy driver in the Linux Kernels and thats their fault.
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Well, not exactly. The linux driver is written by someone else - seems that realtec does not write linux driver by themself. The files available from realtec contains a note:

Code: 
 * This driver is modified from r8169.c in Linux kernel 2.6.18

I have no idea why they do not fix the original driver.

- Dietmar
 
And even worse, the realtec driver are protected by patents.

Code: 
 * This product is covered by one or more of the following patents:
 * US5,307,459, US5,434,872, US5,732,094, US6,570,884, US6,115,776, and US6,327,625.

So we can't use that anyways.
 
OVH just told me that the problem is fixed in kernel >= 2.6.28 - i will try to backport that driver.
 
Ok, i dont have the server on that company but the kernel that is avaliable on the other post that put tom worked perfect.
 
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