Bug 11455 - r8169 driver does not report carrier status
Summary: r8169 driver does not report carrier status
Status: REJECTED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Drivers
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Network (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: Francois Romieu
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Reported: 2008-08-29 17:51 UTC by Jesse
Modified: 2008-10-11 10:14 UTC (History)
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Kernel Version: 2.6.26
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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
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