From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265329AbTLNCCx (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:02:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265331AbTLNCCx (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:02:53 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:34705 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265329AbTLNCCw (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:02:52 -0500 Message-ID: <3FDBC4BB.80904@pobox.com> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:02:35 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcus Blomenkamp CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: r8169 GigE driver problem, locks up 2.4.23 NFS subsystem References: <200312131300.05847.Marcus.Blomenkamp@epost.de> In-Reply-To: <200312131300.05847.Marcus.Blomenkamp@epost.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Marcus Blomenkamp wrote: > Hi all. > > Since ugrading from a realtek-8139 based nic to a realtek-6139 gigabit one i > am experiencing strange network problems. Particularly it locks up the NFS > subsystem on writing to remote files. Can you try the vastly updated r8169 driver in the following patch? http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.6/2.6.0-test11-bk5-netdrvr-exp2.patch.bz2