Re: usage of RealTek 8169 crashes my Linux system

Francois Romieu
2004-03-29T16:19:52Z

Daniel Egger <degger@tarantel.rz.fh-muenchen.de> :
[...]
> Might be a SMP related problem. Since the r8169 fix in 2.6.4 those
> cheapass cards work fine for me albeit a bit slow using the same compiler
> and the same kernel on UP.

Can you try (against 2.6.5-rc2):
http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20040302-2.6.5-rc2-r8169.c-test.patch

I hope it is faster/more CPU savy.

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Ueimor