Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 May 2009 23:57:24 +0200 | From | Francois Romieu <> | Subject | Re: Realtek 8168D: no active link (2.6.29.2) |
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Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au> : [...] > Indeed. To follow up on this, as per my earlier email I left the machine > disconnected from the mains all night - so it was truly "off" for about 9 > hours. Just before coming to work I flicked it on and the "link" LED lit > almost immediately. So whatever the Realtek driver did, the resulting > status would appear to be stored in some kind of non-volatile memory. While > it would appear that this has worked around the problem for me, it would be > nice if the mainline driver could do this itself.
The attached patch is not complete but can you give it a try and check if it makes a difference ?
Thanks in advance.
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