8139too Ethernet Woes

[Allen Kistler]

Bob Chiodini wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I can generally ssh into my home machine from work, but with FC3 I'm
> seeing the following in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Nov 19 07:01:38 littlenail kernel: eth0: link down
> Nov 19 07:01:40 littlenail kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
> Nov 19 07:01:53 littlenail kernel: eth0: link down
> Nov 19 07:01:55 littlenail kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
> 
> The ssh session usually recovers.  I saw these messages in FC2 as well,
> but they did not seem as detrimental.  Yum rarely recovers, at least not
> within my patience level.
> 
> The driver loaded for the Ethernet interface is 8139too.  Upstream is a
> DLink DI-624.  Any insight?

I saw this problem on a server that didn't get along with apmd.  I
didn't try very hard, but I couldn't figure out a way to keep apmd from
shutting down the if without shutting down apmd altogether.