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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?</H1>
<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<I>Thu Mar 24 15:35:20 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 24/03/11 13:21 did gyre and gimble:
><i> On 03/24/2011 08:02 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
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</I>>><i> I'll do that today. I've looked in older logs, and I find places
</I>>><i> where the kernel puts out the "unable to load firmware" message, but
</I>>><i> then gets link beat anyway.
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</I>><i> Well, I've never been a believer in coincidence, but I've booted the old
</I>><i> kernel (2.37.4) as well as 2009.1 and Knoppix, and it appears that the
</I>><i> onboard r8169 NIC just happened to pick the reboot to 2.38 to break.
</I>><i> Nobody sees a link beat on it. A NIC which just happens to give up the
</I>><i> ghost coincidentally with a reboot would have been pretty far down my
</I>><i> list of possibilities.
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</I>><i> Sorry for the noise.
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Could perhaps the firmware needed have been [re]moved with some other
updates?...
Perhaps the nic is not dead yet! :p
Col
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