Re: D945GCLF intel atom board & r8169 ethernet broken in linux-2.6.27-rc5??

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wednesday, 24 of September 2008, Francois Romieu wrote:
> John Gumb <john.gumb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> :
> [...]
> > 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.
> 
> It is probably the driver's responsibility then.
> 
> > I do not have (much) time to look into this any further but hopefully
> > this might help someone.
> 
> Can you try patches #0001 .. #0008 at
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~romieu/r8169/2.6.27-rc6/20080913/ ?

FWIW, these patches make the Ethernet card in the MSI Wind I've been recently
testing work much much more reliably. :-)

Thanks,
Rafael
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