Re: r8169: NFG in 2.6.24-rc2

Mark Lord
2007-11-07T17:11:35Z

Mark Lord wrote:
> My ASUS board has one of these:
>
> 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 81aa
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
..
> ...
> r8169: eth0: link up
> ...
> kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> r8169: eth0: link up
> ...
> Not usable from this point on.
>
> With CONFIG_PCI_MSI=y, it also fails, and then isn't even detected (not in lspci)
> on subsequent reboots. A power cycle is required to get it to show up again.
..

Ahh.. this seems to have been around for a while already,
as there's an unresolved bug entry from -rc1 for this exact problem.