From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Romieu Subject: Re: 8169 Intermittent ifup Failure Issue With RTL8102E Chipset in Intel's New D945GCLF Atom Board (Not the Initial Modprobe Crash, Another Problem) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:31:42 +0200 Message-ID: <20080625213142.GA29890@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <4861800B.90703@nscus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Grollman Return-path: Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:41741 "EHLO electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752499AbYFYVbs (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:31:48 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4861800B.90703@nscus.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Michael Grollman : > No html please. [...] > Patch of http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/17/298 seems to fix the boot-up > modprobe crash related to r8169 Intermittent Issue With RTL8102E > Chipset in Intel's New D945GCLF Atom Board.  However, the r8169 still > only seems to work with this motherboard / realtek combo a certain > percentage of the time.  I have found the best luck when unplugging the > power supply for 5 minutes, and then bring it up cold, thought his was > also not perfect.  Warm boots, then r8169 driver will load, but not > work correctly all the time.
Can you simply check with the latest -rc that 'lspci -vx' correctly displays the pci registers of the 8102 when the device does not work ? -- Ueimor