Bug 21382

Summary:	Unable to get a connection with r8169 driver on NIC RTL-8110SC/8169SC
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Sÿl (silversens)
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Francois Romieu (romieu)
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	akpm
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.36	Subsystem:
Regression:	Yes	Bisected commit-id:

Description Sÿl 2010-10-28 23:07:33 UTC

I upgraded to 2.6.36 my really old 2.6.30.5 kernel, but since I'm unable to use 3 of my NICs.
Those are all RTL-8110SC/8169SC used by r8169.

During first seconds right after "ip addr add x.x.x.x/24 dev eth1 broadcast +" I'm able to ping but I'm loosing 60 % of packets, then after a few minutes I finally don't ping at all.
I even tryed to change my NICs because I thought this was a coincidence, no success, still the same problem.

Comment 1 Sÿl 2010-10-28 23:10:33 UTC

One other info, I also tryed realtek latest driver (http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=6&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false).
It's worse. When trying to ping I get a kernel panic.

Comment 2 Francois Romieu 2010-10-29 21:33:28 UTC

Can you send a complete dmesg and an ethtool dump of the registers
for both 2.6.30.5 and 2.6.36 ?

1500 bytes MTU ?

-- 
Ueimor

Comment 3 Sÿl 2010-11-21 20:04:48 UTC

Forget about it.

The problem disappeared after upgrading some other packages on my distribution.
Weird though, but it doesn't concern the kernel.

Sorry for bugging you for nothing.