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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Subject: Re: r8169 won't transmit with 3.12
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:25:25 +0100
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Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au> :
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> That's fine. I was doing it to see if it would work. I'll stay with the r8169
> for now.

Thanks.

> I got a watchdog notice now, not sure if that is better or worse.

It's the usual Tx failure symptom.

[dmesg]
> [    0.000000] DMI: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. To be filled by O.E.M./970A-D3P, BIOS F3 05/24/2013

(8168evl on a fairly recent motherboard, bios could be upgraded)

Did you enable the iommu in the setup ? If not, please give it a try.

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Ueimor