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We've been running Centos 6 on an HP Pavillion P1 1131 for at least 4 years now with no drama. Last couple of days have been drama. <BR>
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After doing odd-man out testing, we appear to have narrowed it down to the onboard RTL8171EH-CG seems to conk out after a couple of hours. Reboot, and all is well, for.... a couple of hours, then no inbound/outbound eth0. <BR>
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Since this has been a stable server for many years, my hunch is the chip has gone intermittent. As such, simplest way out of the swamp is to turn it off and stuff in a PCI x1 card. <BR>
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Any recommendations for an inexpensive no-drama PCI x1 card that works out of the box with Centos 6? <BR>
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2nd component to this is that this HP system has a tiny little wireless card, apparently an RT3092. Has anyone gotten these to be recognized on Centos 6? an lspci -nn doesn't seem to show the chip, although I visually have confirmed it is there. It would be nice to have wireless in case the DSL/uverse dies and we have to use cell phone. <BR>
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3rd - Another way of going about this would be to boot an independent linux CD and see if the ethernet chip dies after a while. Recommendations these days on the best on of these? Is Knoppix still good for this? Anything better at diagnostics? <BR>
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Neal Rhodes<BR>
MNOP Ltd.
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