Re: r8169 ethernet stopped working kernel-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64

[Francois Romieu <romieu fr zoreil com>]

Neal Becker <ndbecker2 gmail com> :
[...]
> 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.

Can you configure the IP address by hand and see if some traffic flows ?

If not, assuming you have a 8168 (which should be clear from the line 
including the 'XID' comment in the dmesg of your kernel), it could be 
worth to give the kernel a 'noapic, pci=nomsi' option at boot time.

> 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.

The driver itself stood the same and the kernel has not changed much from
2.6.25 (2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64) to 2.6.25.2 (kernel-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64).

Something _must_ have changed though.

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Ueimor