[SOLVED] Unresponsive Internet Every Minute

famboozle · 2011-07-09 17:04:40

I recently installed Arch Linux on a new computer from the ISO image provided on the website and upgraded all of the packages to their recent versions. I am having a problem with my internet. The internet is sluggish and every 30 to 60 seconds just stops working altogether. Sometimes it comes back in a couple of minutes, sometimes it does not. If I manually bring down the interface and put the interface back up using netcfg, then I can use the internet for another minute before it becomes completely unresponsive. Has anyone encountered this problem?

Here is the information on my system. Here is rc.conf. I used localhost as my host name to make troubleshooting easier.

#
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
#

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# LOCALIZATION
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# DAEMON_LOCALE: If set to 'yes', use $LOCALE as the locale during daemon
# startup and during the boot process. If set to 'no', the C locale is used.
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime", any other value will result
#   in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for virtualization)
#   Note: Using "localtime" is discouraged.
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
# VERBOSE: Verbose level (from 1 to 8). man 3 syslog for level info
#
LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="America/New_York"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
VERBOSE="3"

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# HARDWARE
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Blacklisting is no longer supported.
#   Replace every !module by an entry as on the following line in a file in
#   /etc/modprobe.d:
#     blacklist module
#   See "man modprobe.conf" for details.
#
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
MODULES=()

# Udev settle timeout (default to 30)
UDEV_TIMEOUT=30

# Scan for FakeRAID (dmraid) Volumes at startup
USEDMRAID="no"

# Scan for BTRFS volumes at startup
USEBTRFS="no"

# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# NETWORKING
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
#
HOSTNAME="localhost"

# Use 'ip addr' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
#
# Wired network setup
#   - interface: name of device (required)
#   - address: IP address (leave blank for DHCP)
#   - netmask: subnet mask (ignored for DHCP)
#   - gateway: default route (ignored for DHCP)
# 
# Static IP example
# interface=eth0
# address=192.168.0.2
# netmask=255.255.255.0
# gateway=192.168.0.1
#
# DHCP example
# interface=eth0
# address=
# netmask=
# gateway=

#interface=eth0
#address=
#netmask=
#gateway=
WIRED_INTERFACE="eth0"
# Setting this to "yes" will skip network shutdown.
# This is required if your root device is on NFS.
NETWORK_PERSIST="no"

# Enable these netcfg profiles at boot-up. These are useful if you happen to
# need more advanced network features than the simple network service
# supports, such as multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
#   - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
#   - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
#
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
#
# This now requires the netcfg package
#
#NETWORKS=(main)

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
#   - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng net-auto-wired  netfs crond)

Here is /etc/hosts.

 #
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#

#<ip-address>    <hostname.domain.org>    <hostname>
127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain    localhost
::1        localhost.localdomain    localhost

# End of file

Here is the ethernet driver.

 [    3.428560] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded

I have downgraded netcfg to an earlier version that I had on my laptop and this did not fix the problem. I have also disabled the IPv6 module. In addition, the internet works perfectly when I dual boot into Windows.

Last edited by famboozle (2011-07-09 19:43:37)

lilsirecho · 2011-07-09 18:10:08

Perhaps try my daemons:

DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng network netfs alsa dbus crond)

hermanr · 2011-07-09 18:30:23

What motherboard/chipset do you have? Recent Asus P8P67-motherboards, for example, use a new r8169-family controller (8111E) which is not recognized by pre-2.6.39 kernels. In fact, it seems that the latest kernel update (2.6.39.3-1) represents a step backward and does not identify the 8111E-controller anymore. My computer has the same erratic behavior as yours.

The r8168-driver from AUR does work, however.

famboozle · 2011-07-09 18:57:53

The motherboard I have is a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7 and I am using the 2.6.39 kernel.

I downloaded the r8168 driver from AUR and everything works perfectly now.

Thanks.

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#1 2011-07-09 17:04:40

[SOLVED] Unresponsive Internet Every Minute

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