On Tuesday 30 August 2011 11:56:58 Dom wrote: > On 30/08/11 16:38, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > Hi: > > > > I got an older motherboard with embedded VIA VT6102 network controller > > which I'm using as a print server with cups. [snip] > > > > Well, the network controller of the box goes to sleep during longer > > inactivity. The pertinent LED on the switch goes off. > > That happened with kernel 2.6.39 and now still keeps happening with > > 3.0.0. In the morning just one keystroke is enough to bring the network > > controller back to work. The box does not hang. It's just the network > > connection. [snip] > > > > This is very interesting. > > I've been having similar problems on two systems with the same network > controller, but initially thought it was a problem with the onboard SATA > controller. Disabling the onboard controller and putting in a PCI SATA > card seemed to help, but not completely fix the problem. > > I also found that the systems sometime hung randomly during the boot > sequence and would only continue if I pressed a key. This is a real > problem with one of the PCs, which normally runs headless with no > keyboard. I've made a temporary fix with a small circuit that emulated > the shift key being pressed every 5 seconds. No other problems here, just the network port. > > Out of interest, what MoBo are you using? Mine are Abit KV7.
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