Re: "resetting" a network card
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:06:31PM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote:
> On approximately Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:48:18PM -0500, Mike M wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:13, mtsouk@freemail.gr wrote:
> > > Thanks for answering.
> > >
> > > I am afraid that this is not what I want:
> > > The problem is that the network card, after lots of data (about 4GB) -
> > > either in receive or in transmit, stops responding correctly.
> > > So I want to somehow "reset" in order to see if this will solve my
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > Any other ideas please?
> > <snip>
> >
> > I am curious about the type of card your are working with - RTL8139 by any
> > chance? The problem you describe has a certain familiarity to it.
> > --
>
> I second the thought about it being a cheap network card. A decent card
> shouldn't do that. But to answer your question you could do this:
>
> #/etc/init.d/networking stop
>
> #rmmod network_module.o
^^
You don't need the .o; just provide the module name as it appears in
the output of lsmod.
Cheap network cards are cheap for a reason ...
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