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SubjectRe: Realtek 8168D: no active link (2.6.29.2)
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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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