Bug#488475: linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64: r8196 driver having problems with GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 06:18:10PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64
> Version: 2.6.25-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> I recently bought a gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard, comes with a Realtek 8111C chip nic.
> 
> there is a large amount of dropped, I have checked this on a newly booted machine and the number seems to be in the >1B 
> mark. IPv4 seems to be working okay. But I use radvd, ipv6 autoconfig to configure ipv6. icmpv6 router advertisements 
> don't seem to be making it to the card. I see noting then I run tcpdump 

There have been many changes on the r8169 driver in 2.6.26 and the 2.6.26.x stable series.
Does the problem still occur with the current Lenny kernel?

Cheers,
        Moritz