Re: 2.6.3 RT8139too NIC problems

["Nick Warne" <nick@ukfsn.org>]

 > Funnily enough, I looked at this at work today and decided to check 
> against 8139too.c from 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 trees.  There was a lot of 
> changes, but it appeared only to that file (i.e. nothing referencing 
> it) - so I have just built 2.6.3 with the 8139too.c source from 2.6.2 
> just to make sure it isn't code elsewhere (i.e. pci stuff?) that is 
> causing it.
> 
> So far it is running perfectly.  I will wait a while to test, and if 
> it doesn't show any problems, we can presume it is the changes that 
> caused this problem for me on my system.
> 
> Enquiries to the HantsLUG seem to be that no-one else gets this 
> problem.

This has solved the problem for me.  Please can anyone tell me what 
details are required to provide a bug report on this strange one off 
issue, as I wouldn't know where to start.

To recap:

rtl8139too cards worked on all kernels up until 2.6.3 (like 3 years).

The timeout issues started with 2.6.3 (using make oldconfig)... new 
settings applied.

Tried lilo 'append="noapic"  -> problem still persisted.

After reading I changed: 2.6.2 source-> 8139too.c to replace new 
2.6.3 source-> 8139too.c -> rebuilt with same .config.  No timeouts - 
all hunky dory.

Thanks,

Nick

[root@Linux233 log]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C585VP [Apollo 
VP1/VPX] (rev 23)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA 
[Apollo VP] (rev 27)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 02)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 
(rev 10)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 
(rev 10)


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