netdev - Re: D945GCLF intel atom board & r8169 ethernet broken in linux-2.6.27-rc5??

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0809250024000.27884@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:	Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:26:32 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>
To:	John Gumb <john.gumb@...dberg.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: D945GCLF  intel atom board & r8169 ethernet broken in
 linux-2.6.27-rc5??

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, John Gumb wrote:

> 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  

Hmm, probably a lot of 0xff stored in NVRAM of the card? There seems to be 
some similarity to the problem that seemed to be e1000e-specific so far.

        http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/8/123
        http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/22/23
        http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11382
	https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425480

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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