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From: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
To: John Gumb <john.gumb@tandberg.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: D945GCLF  intel atom board & r8169 ethernet broken in linux-2.6.27-rc5??
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:37:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DA88EB.6030601@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9F6ACAE02B6DD040A1E259977622CFDB03F5BCCB@oslexcp1.eu.tandberg.int>

John Gumb wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have an Intel Atom D945GCLF based system. It has a realtek RTL8101E
> PCI network interface.
> 
> With linux-2.6.27-rc4 - everything seems fine. I think we've been
> working OK since 2.6.26ish.
> 
> With linux-2.6.27-rc5, "ifconfig eth0" just hangs. lspci -vvx reports,
> after loading the driver,
> 
>> 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E
> PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
>>       !!! Unknown header type 7f
> 00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> 
> 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> 
> 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> 
> 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  
> 
> Before I load the driver lspci -vvx looks OK.
> 
> I do not have (much) time to look into this any further but hopefully
> this might help someone.
> 
> I know there are problems with this device on the atom board
> particularly around warm start but thus far I seem to have avoided this
> issue.
> 
> A cold start in this case does not help.
> 
> Lspci.bad comes from -rc5 with the r8169 driver loaded.
> Lspci.good comes from -rc4 with the r8169 driver loaded


did you check if falling back to the older kernel makes the device work again?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-24 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-24 11:26 D945GCLF intel atom board & r8169 ethernet broken in linux-2.6.27-rc5?? John Gumb
2008-09-24 18:37 ` Kok, Auke [this message]
2008-09-24 20:19 ` Francois Romieu
2008-09-26 21:45   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-09-26 21:52     ` Francois Romieu
2008-09-26 22:27       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-09-24 22:26 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-09-24 22:27 ` Jiri Kosina

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