Realtek LAN: Device Cannot Start

[CaptNKILL]

Anyone have any ideas at all?

I'm downloading a new Ubuntu live CD just to test out the LAN, but if it works I still don't know what to do.

Maybe I could throw in an old piece of crap 10/100 PCI card but I hate doing half-assed stuff like that.

[CaptNKILL]

Well, Ubuntu didn't help any.

It doesn't work and I don't know if the LAN card is missing a driver or if its just not picking up the network connection. I have no idea where to look at a list of installed devices and their drivers in this OS.

I downloaded a driver but since executables don't exist and apparently installation instructions are below Linux driver programmers I have no idea what to do with it.

Right now I'm thinking about sticking my board in the computer I'm building and buying a new P45 board for my system. I'd have a worthless bottom of the barrel G41 board laying around, but I could always save it for another system.

I just hate to have to kill my system to do this.

EDIT: I'm going to try one more time to reinstall 7 on this computer and install the driver straight from gigabyte. If that doesn't work I'm going to toss the hard drive in my rig and boot up 7 with my system. If the ethernet on my board works fine then I'll just swap out the boards and order a Gigabyte P45 UD3P for my rig. This would solve a bunch of problems at once, though it would cost me a good chunk of change. I'd finally have PCI-E 2.0 and a second slot to use my 9600GT for a physx card, and I should be able to overclock my Q9550 a little better. The P35 will also allow me to overclock the E6750 in the other system, which is what I intended from the beginning.

I'll probably have to just toss XP onto a drive to test the G41 board too just to make 100% sure that its just a 7\vista driver problem and not a problem with the board. If the board is defective then I'll have to RMA it. Either way though I don't have time to wait for that now. I need to finish this system by the end of the week.

[CaptNKILL]

Well, I installed 7 on my system just to see if the onboard network on my P35 board works and it worked immediately without a single problem.

I installed Vista on the G41 system and it has the SAME problem with the onboard network chip. The default driver had a code 10 error, and so did the latest vista driver direct from realtek. If it does it in Vista and 7 with multiple drivers under multiple different situations, that's more than just coincidence.

So, I think I'm just going to RMA this thing and tell them to give me a refund. If I have to I'll eat the 15% fee just to get it out of my hair. I'm not going to need another board for quite a while so it makes no sense to spend the $10 to ship it back for RMA just to have a sub par board laying around for 6 months waiting for a system.

[Muppet]

I get the same problem when using the latest Realtek driver. Had to go back to an earlier version. That fixed it for me. That was in Vista though.

[Sean_W]

Originally Posted by CaptNKILL

Well, Ubuntu didn't help any.

It doesn't work and I don't know if the LAN card is missing a driver or if its just not picking up the network connection. I have no idea where to look at a list of installed devices and their drivers in this OS.

I downloaded a driver but since executables don't exist and apparently installation instructions are below Linux driver programmers I have no idea what to do with it.

Right now I'm thinking about sticking my board in the computer I'm building and buying a new P45 board for my system. I'd have a worthless bottom of the barrel G41 board laying around, but I could always save it for another system.

I just hate to have to kill my system to do this.

EDIT: I'm going to try one more time to reinstall 7 on this computer and install the driver straight from gigabyte. If that doesn't work I'm going to toss the hard drive in my rig and boot up 7 with my system. If the ethernet on my board works fine then I'll just swap out the boards and order a Gigabyte P45 UD3P for my rig. This would solve a bunch of problems at once, though it would cost me a good chunk of change. I'd finally have PCI-E 2.0 and a second slot to use my 9600GT for a physx card, and I should be able to overclock my Q9550 a little better. The P35 will also allow me to overclock the E6750 in the other system, which is what I intended from the beginning.

I'll probably have to just toss XP onto a drive to test the G41 board too just to make 100% sure that its just a 7\vista driver problem and not a problem with the board. If the board is defective then I'll have to RMA it. Either way though I don't have time to wait for that now. I need to finish this system by the end of the week.

In Ubuntu you can do a number of things. Type dmesg to see what happened on boot or lspci -v in the terminal(you may need to use sudo) to get a readout of all of the devices. I assume Network Manager didn't pick anything up then?

You could try the Ubuntu wiki http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Jaunty

[Q]

I had the same problem. My solution was to use an Intel Pro NIC. MUCH faster and reliable. I even went through the Ubuntu thing.

Sorry for the lack of help.