Re: r8168b woes
yea sounds familiar I'll try it out
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:49:05AM -0700, Jeffrey wrote:
>> I was running the "linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64" and came across
>> the r8169 driver to r8168b bug. However downloading the r8168 driver,
>> compiling it and installing it didn't work.
>>
>> The symptoms were the classic, under high network load "mediatomb
>> videos to our play station 3 box" the network would stall until I
>> disabled/reenabled networking. I tried both drivers the original r8169
>> from the image and compiling the r8168 from source. It seemed like the
>> behavior was exactly the same. I did verify that the driver r8168 was
>> being loaded via the lsmod | grep 'r816' command.
>>
>> After returning to the stock kernel 2.6.32. The network is very stable
>> and very good with the stock r8169 driver.
>>
>> The network is integrated on the ASUS M5A97 board.
>
> Do you get a 'NETDEV WATCHDOG' warning in the kernel log? If so this
> may be a known bug which is fixed in 3.2.25. Try the package from
> unstable (linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 version 3.2.30-1).
>
> Ben.
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