**wol broken** vmlinuz-3.4.6-2.fc17.x86_64 vmlinuz-3.5.0-2.fc17.x86_64 ubuntu-12.04 vmlinuz-3.2.0-27-generic [ 12.620339] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded [ 12.620573] r8169 0000:02:00.0: irq 41 for MSI/MSI-X [ 12.621068] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: RTL8168c/8111c at 0xffffc9000067e000, XXX, XID 1c4000c0 IRQ 41 ---- **ok in all ubuntu/fedora kernels** sources: http://packages.debian.org/sid/r8168-dkms or http://code.google.com/p/r8168/ $ wget http://r8168.googlecode.com/files/r8168-8.031.00.tar.bz2 $ sudo ./autorun.sh Check old driver and unload it. rmmod r8169 Build the module and install Backup r8169.ko rename r8169.ko to r8169.bak DEPMOD 3.5.0-2.fc17.x86_64 load module r8168 Completed. [ 4301.046025] r8168 Gigabit Ethernet driver 8.031.00-NAPI loaded [ 4301.046174] r8168 0000:02:00.0: irq 41 for MSI/MSI-X [ 4301.047060] eth%d: RTL8168C/8111C at 0xffffc9000067e000, XXX, IRQ 41 [ 4301.072252] r8168: This product is covered by one or more of the following patents: US5,307,459, US5,434,872, US5,732,094, US6,570,884, US6,115,776, and US6,327,625. [ 4301.072254] eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8168C/8111C'. [ 4301.072257] r8168 Copyright (C) 2012 Realtek NIC software team <nicfae@realtek.com> [ 4301.072257] This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details, please see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. [ 4301.072257] This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. [ 4301.133054] r8168: p6p1: link down [ 4301.133884] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): p6p1: link is not ready [ 4302.696051] r8168: p6p1: link up [ 4302.697609] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): p6p1: link becomes ready [ 4303.138027] r8168: p6p1: link up
A similar ubuntu issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/914439
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 42849 ***