Realtek 8111e vs. Precise [SOLVED - sort of]

[MR ZenWiz]

End of the saga: for whatever reasons the new m/bs refused to function
properly in my new case, the "old" one works just fine.  I was even
able to tweak the memory speed to what it should be according to the
cards - 1600MHz.  So I guess I'm stuck with a perfectly wonderful
Phenom II x6 at 3.2GHz and an MSI 880 m/b that works fine.

For the curious, here's the lshw listing from the MSI 970 m/b that
wouldn't run the LAN right. Actually, I took a complete dump, but
here's what it has in the network areas:

        *-pci:2
             description: PCI bridge
             product: SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
             vendor: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics)
             physical id: 14.4
             bus info: pci at 0000:00:14.4
             version: 40
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: pci subtractive_decode bus_master vga_palette
             resources: ioport:d000(size=4096) memory:fe100000-fe1fffff
           *-network
                description: Ethernet interface
                product: VT6105/VT6106S [Rhine-III]
                vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
                physical id: 5
                bus info: pci at 0000:03:05.0
                logical name: eth0
                version: 86
                serial: 00:13:46:8e:26:94
                size: 10Mbit/s
                capacity: 100Mbit/s
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet
physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
                configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes
driver=via-rhine driverversion=1.5.0 duplex=half latency=32 link=no
maxlatency=8 mingnt=3 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
                resources: irq:20 ioport:d000(size=256)
memory:fe110000-fe1100ff memory:fe100000-fe10ffff

Notice that this is the only card showing - this was the add-in VIA
NIC, not the on-board Realtek LAN "card."

Thanks everyone - I am quite relieved and pleased to have my machine
back and working.

MR