I realize I probably need to post again but wanted to at least update my original post in case anyone finds this.
I spoke too soon on the "RTL8111E" NIC. The issue has finally hit me 3 months later. Seems the NIC comes back after my drives go to sleep enough so I was able to get in and grab the syslog from unmenu and get in a clean reboot.
I lost my connection around 21:58 sometime. A sample from the syslog during my issue is here and the output of ethtool and ifconfig but from after a reboot.
I have found plenty of others speaking about the issues with this NIC in the forum but I have not found any solutions posted. Seems most people are just being steered away from motherboards with this NIC chipset. What are other people doing to resolve this? I am thinking just buy a pcie x1 Intel card like this one --> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106033 Or should I splurge on a server version for another 60 bucks? Or does someone have a better idea to maybe get an official resolution to this for everyone?
Thanks again,
-D
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: MII
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
Link detected: yes
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: MII
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
Link detected: yes
root@Tower:~# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 50:e5:49:3d:7d:52
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:4500 Metric:1
RX packets:6711 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:424 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:417610 (407.8 KiB) TX bytes:33021 (32.2 KiB)
Interrupt:29 Base address:0x2000
Sep 26 12:15:59 Tower emhttp: shcmd (135): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdh >/dev/null
Sep 26 12:21:35 Tower ntpd[1479]: synchronized to 155.101.3.114, stratum 2
Sep 26 17:11:46 Tower dhcpcd[1471]: sending DHCP_REQUEST for 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.254
Sep 26 17:11:47 Tower dhcpcd[1471]: dhcpIPaddrLeaseTime=86400 in DHCP server response.
Sep 26 17:11:47 Tower dhcpcd[1471]: DHCP_ACK received from (192.168.1.254)
Sep 26 18:00:01 Tower logger: mover started
Sep 26 18:00:01 Tower logger: .
Sep 26 18:00:36 Tower logger: mover finished
Sep 26 18:15:36 Tower kernel: mdcmd (609): spindown 2
Sep 26 18:15:37 Tower kernel: mdcmd (610): spindown 4
Sep 26 18:15:47 Tower kernel: mdcmd (611): spindown 0
Sep 26 18:15:47 Tower kernel: mdcmd (612): spindown 1
Sep 26 18:15:48 Tower kernel: mdcmd (613): spindown 3
Sep 26 18:15:48 Tower kernel: mdcmd (614): spindown 5
Sep 26 18:15:49 Tower emhttp: shcmd (136): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdh >/dev/null
Sep 26 21:52:28 Tower kernel: mdcmd (615): spindown 4
Sep 26 21:56:22 Tower kernel: mdcmd (616): spindown 1
Sep 26 21:56:23 Tower kernel: mdcmd (617): spindown 2
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:261 dev_watchdog+0xff/0x17f()
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: Hardware name: Z68A-D3H-B3
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit queue 0 timed out
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: Modules linked in: ntfs md_mod xor ahci r8169 mvsas libsas scst scsi_transport_sas
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G W 2.6.32.9-unRAID #8
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: Call Trace:
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: [<c102449e>] warn_slowpath_common+0x60/0x77
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: [<c10244e9>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x24/0x27
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: [<c123b505>] dev_watchdog+0xff/0x17f
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: [<c1030d4a>] ? insert_work+0x43/0x4b
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: [<c1031042>] ? __queue_work+0x26/0x2b
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: [<c1031047>] ? delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x24
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: [<c123b406>] ? dev_watchdog+0x0/0x17f
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: [<c102bb23>] run_timer_softirq+0x105/0x158
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: [<c1028261>] __do_softirq+0x84/0xf8
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: [<c10282fb>] do_softirq+0x26/0x2b
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: [<c1028556>] irq_exit+0x29/0x2b
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: [<c10118f0>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6f/0x7d
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: [<c10031f6>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x2a/0x30
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: [<c10085f9>] ? mwait_idle+0x4c/0x52
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: [<c1001a14>] cpu_idle+0x3a/0x4e
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: [<c129c662>] start_secondary+0x195/0x19a
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: ---[ end trace 592abbd31d621522 ]---
Sep 26 21:58:24 Tower kernel: r8169: eth0: link up
Sep 26 22:00:48 Tower kernel: r8169: eth0: link up
Sep 26 22:02:48 Tower kernel: r8169: eth0: link up
Sep 26 22:05:12 Tower kernel: r8169: eth0: link up
Sep 26 22:05:17 Tower unmenu[1563]: bad method - 9187416 496652240 4046717248 64821280 289290 17149711 139512008 7962840 0 25158630 727832709187416-^M
Sep 26 22:08:24 Tower kernel: r8169: eth0: link up
Sep 26 22:08:33 Tower unmenu[1563]: bad method - 9187416 496652240 4046717248 64821280 289290 17149711 139512008 7962840 0 25158630 727832709187416-^M
Sep 26 22:11:04 Tower kernel: mdcmd (618): spindown 0
Sep 26 22:11:05 Tower kernel: mdcmd (619): spindown 3
Sep 26 22:11:05 Tower kernel: mdcmd (620): spindown 5
Sep 26 22:11:56 Tower kernel: mdcmd (621): spindown 4
Sep 26 22:12:06 Tower kernel: mdcmd (622): spindown 1
Sep 26 22:12:27 Tower kernel: mdcmd (623): spindown 2
Sep 26 22:13:18 Tower kernel: r8169: eth0: link up
syslog-2011-09-26.zip