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Date:	Sun, 17 May 2009 18:22:13 -0400
From:	David Dillow <dave@...dillows.org>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@...sics.adelaide.edu.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Edward Hsu <edward_hsu@...ltek.com.tw>
Subject: Re: Realtek 8168D: no active link (2.6.29.2)

On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 23:57 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@...sics.adelaide.edu.au> :
> [...]
> > Indeed.  To follow up on this, as per my earlier email I left the machine
> > disconnected from the mains all night - so it was truly "off" for about 9
> > hours.  Just before coming to work I flicked it on and the "link" LED lit
> > almost immediately.  So whatever the Realtek driver did, the resulting
> > status would appear to be stored in some kind of non-volatile memory.  While
> > it would appear that this has worked around the problem for me, it would be
> > nice if the mainline driver could do this itself.
> 
> The attached patch is not complete but can you give it a try and check if
> it makes a difference ?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

While it looks like Jonathan and I are chasing two different problems,
would your patch make any difference to my XID 281000c0 locking up? It
looks like the init sequence for MAC_VER_25 changed, but I don't know if
it would help my issue.

Dave

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