Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:37:31 -0700 | From | "Kok, Auke" <> | Subject | Re: D945GCLF intel atom board & r8169 ethernet broken in linux-2.6.27-rc5?? |
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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?
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