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Message-ID: <20080212222015.GA21495@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:20:15 +0100
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To: fgnijuhhu guduggurehug <jsmiths1234@...e.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8169 auto-negotiation problem
fgnijuhhu guduggurehug <jsmiths1234@...e.com> :
> > fgnijuhhu guduggurehug :
> > [...]
> >> I already posted my problem and what I did to solve it on
> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461429.
> >
> > Have you tried anything more recent than a 2.6.18 based kernel ?
>
> No, but if changes were made to the iniatialization of the chipset
> in the current driver (mine was 2.2LK), this might do the trick.
Please try a recent kernel. Your r8169 driver is badly outdated.
[...]
> Anyway, how to best upgrade the kernel in debian (without problems,
> of course) ? The problem right now is that every apt-get upgrade
> reverts the r8169 driver to the old one...
I do not use debian but you can read:
http://www.google.com/search?q=debian+kernel+upgrade
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Ueimor
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