Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Realtek 8168D: no active link (2.6.29.2) | From | David Dillow <> | Date | Sun, 17 May 2009 18:22:13 -0400 |
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On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 23:57 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > 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.
While it looks like Jonathan and I are chasing two different problems, would your patch make any difference to my XID 281000c0 locking up? It looks like the init sequence for MAC_VER_25 changed, but I don't know if it would help my issue.
Dave
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