Bug 11455

Summary:	r8169 driver does not report carrier status
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Jesse (jesselnz)
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Francois Romieu (romieu)
Status:	REJECTED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.26	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:

Description Jesse 2008-08-29 17:51:47 UTC

Distribution: Gentoo
Hardware Environment: Realtek RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet controller
Software Environment: Gentoo, with kernel 2.6.26 and dhcpcd 4.0.1
Problem Description: The r8169 driver fails to report link carrier status.  This causes problems with dhcp clients that check the carrier status.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Attempt to use a DHCP client with carrier detection (i.e. dhcpcd 4.0.1 and up)

Comment 1 Francois Romieu 2008-08-31 07:22:25 UTC

Can you:
- send the complete output of 'dmesg' from boot
- send the complete output of 'mii-tool -vv'
- try a 2.6.27-rc5 kernel

Thanks in advance.

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Ueimor