Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: D945GCLF intel atom board & r8169 ethernet broken in linux-2.6.27-rc5?? | Date | Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:45:46 +0200 |
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On Wednesday, 24 of September 2008, Francois Romieu wrote: > John Gumb <john.gumb@tandberg.com> : > [...] > > With linux-2.6.27-rc5, "ifconfig eth0" just hangs. lspci -vvx reports, > > after loading the driver, > > > > > 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E > > PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev ff) (prog-if ff) > > > !!! Unknown header type 7f > > 00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > > 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > > 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > > 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > > > > Before I load the driver lspci -vvx looks OK. > > It is probably the driver's responsibility then. > > > I do not have (much) time to look into this any further but hopefully > > this might help someone. > > Can you try patches #0001 .. #0008 at > http://userweb.kernel.org/~romieu/r8169/2.6.27-rc6/20080913/ ?
FWIW, these patches make the Ethernet card in the MSI Wind I've been recently testing work much much more reliably. :-)
Thanks, Rafael
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