[Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?

[Frank Griffin]

On 03/24/2011 07:55 AM, Thomas Backlund wrote:
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> No r8169 fixes in upstream 2.6.38.1
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> I'll check HEAD commits...
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> Should be easy to check if kernel is at fault
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> Boot the old kernel...
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> Is the issue gone ?

I'll do that today.   I've looked in older logs, and I find places where 
the kernel puts out the "unable to load firmware" message, but then gets 
link beat anyway.