Bug 449094

Summary:	r8169 ethernet stopped working kernel-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Neal Becker <ndbecker2>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	high
Version:	9	CC:	josep.puigdemont, retsil, romieu, swsnyder, tjb
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Description Neal Becker 2008-05-30 12:06:21 UTC

Description of problem:
My wired r8169 stopped working.  The driver is loaded - I don't see any
errors.  tcpdump reports nothing (except my own dhcp requests). NM won't
connect.

Booted 2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64.  Works.

I have repeated this several times.

One thing I don't understand - I'm sure r8169 has been working for me for
quite a while after that last kernel update.

One thing - I DID get a bunch of yum updates last night - but none seem to
be relevant.

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Comment 1 Steve Snyder 2008-06-24 20:52:16 UTC

FYI, it is also broken in RHEL 5.2 kernel 2.6.18-92.1.1.el5, and in the previous
2.6.18-92.el5 kernel as well

Revert to the 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 kernel and all is well.

Comment 2 Robert Barnett 2008-09-04 22:27:53 UTC

I've just seen this problem with the r8169 driver on a new ACER laptop. The problem went away by temporarily turning acpi=off.

We ran yum update to the latest kernel and now everything is fine.

Comment 3 Josep 2008-09-21 22:02:51 UTC

This could be a duplicate of Bug #444966.

Could you check whether doing a "rmmod r8169; modprobe r8169" makes the device come up?

Comment 4 Neal Becker 2008-09-21 23:22:34 UTC

I no longer have this problem.  Not sure what made the difference.

Comment 5 Chuck Ebbert 2008-09-22 17:02:04 UTC

Is this fixed in 2.6.26.3-29?

Comment 6 Neal Becker 2008-09-22 17:41:09 UTC

I am not seeing the problem in 2.6.26.3-29 (not sure how many versions back it was fixed)

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2008-11-06 01:51:23 UTC

kernel-2.6.27.4-26.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.27.4-26.fc9

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-11-07 02:56:34 UTC

kernel-2.6.27.4-26.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-9467

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2008-11-10 13:16:01 UTC

kernel-2.6.27.5-32.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.27.5-32.fc9

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2008-11-12 02:58:02 UTC

kernel-2.6.27.5-32.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-9583

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2008-11-13 07:43:10 UTC

kernel-2.6.27.5-37.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.27.5-37.fc9

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2008-11-14 11:54:27 UTC

kernel-2.6.27.5-41.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.27.5-41.fc9

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2008-11-19 14:54:52 UTC

kernel-2.6.27.5-41.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.