Network stopped working with 2.6.20-1.3062.fc7

[Russell Strong <russell strong id au>]

Network not working after boot, however it did pick up a dhcp address.

Checked /var/log/messages and noticed:

NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
repeated multiple time....

Tryed:

ifdown eth0
rmmod r8169
ifup eth0

Got:

r8169: probe of 000:01:00.0 failed with error -22
r8169 device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

Checked /var/log/messages:

r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK-NAPI loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 17(level, low) -> IRQ 17
ACPI: PCI Interrupt for device 0000:01:00.0 disabled
r8169: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -22

lspci -vvv:

01:00:.0 Ethernet Controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
      !!! Unknown header type 7f

uname -r
2.6.20-1.3062.fc7

BTW,  it wasn't overly stable with earlier kernels but kind of worked.