Bug 468435

Summary: Rawhide kernel breaks RTL8111/8168B NIC
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Chris <huor.carnesir>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: medium    
Version: rawhideCC: kernel-maint, quintela, yaneti
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/var/log/messages with broken 2.6.27.3-39.fc10.i686
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/var/log/messages with working 2.6.27.3-30.rc1.fc10.i686 none

Description Chris 2008-10-24 18:25:45 UTC 
Created attachment 321443 [details]
lspci output

Description of problem:
Installing the latest rawhide kernel disabled my RTL8111/8168B NIC. LEDs go out as soon as the kernel gets loaded. Booting an older kernel again doesn't help.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.27.3-39.fc10.i686

How reproducible:
once

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade from kernel-2.6.27.3-30.rc1.fc10.i686 to kernel-2.6.27.3-39.fc10.i686
2. reboot
  
Actual results:
dead NIC

Expected results:
working NIC as in the kernels before

Additional info:
The Problem seems to be the (buggy?) r8169 driver from realtek [1] which is unable to activate the r8168 properly. Loading the original module from [2] didn't work for me although there are quite a lot of success reports out there.

[1] http://peanuts.earth.sinica.edu.tw/blog/?p=47
[2] http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=5&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#2
Comment 1 Chris 2008-10-24 18:32:19 UTC 
Created attachment 321444 [details]
/var/log/messages with broken 2.6.27.3-39.fc10.i686
Comment 2 Chris 2008-10-24 18:34:13 UTC 
Created attachment 321445 [details]
/var/log/messages with working 2.6.27.3-30.rc1.fc10.i686
Comment 3 Yanko Kaneti 2008-10-24 18:47:16 UTC 
dup 468360
Comment 4 Dave Jones 2008-10-24 22:19:16 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 468360 ***