From: Trenton Carr on
On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:35:45 +0200, Rajko M. <kakomo123(a)nospam.bazar>
wrote:

> Trenton Carr wrote:
>
>> Hello all
>>
>> AsusAMD64 MoBo with onboard Marvel Lan is dead in WinXP when shutting
>> down
>> from Suse10/KDE. I had the same issue with Suse9.2, but found a
>> workaround
>> by shutting down from root with,
>>
>> shutdown -r now
>>
>> This does not work work with Suse10, using
>>
>> shutdown -nr now
>>
>> _does_ work but it goes down to quickly and the docs advise against it.
>>
>> Anyone know where I can look to see what the KDE shutdown script does to
>> the hardware or doesn't?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Trenton
>>
>
> Hi Trenton,
>
> This is from opensuse.org.suse-linux.support.networking on
> news://support-forums.novell.com :
>
> "Apparently there is a bug in the kernel module that is in the SuSE
> kernel, if you are using the nic in gig mode it can reset the card as
> it does not use jumbo frames, this was brought to my attention in
> another thread, I think the only way to fix this is to either upgrade
> the kernel to one that has the "fixed" module or grab the Marvell
> source and compile your own module for inclusion in the kernel you have
> now."
>
> HTH

Thanks very much.

Trenton

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