Re: r8168b woes

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

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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Ben Hutchings
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