Bug#497931: forcedeth: don't work after resume

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 04:52:40PM +0200, Colomban Wendling wrote:
> Ooops: don't care about LED activity, it is the normal one, sorry.
> (activity LED on when cable plugged in, blinking when network activity)
> 
> I've made another test: the device works perfectly if I remove the
> forcedeth driver before suspending and reload if after resume.

Can you check, whether the connectivity fails due to a reversed
(and thus illegal) MAC address? That's a bug that's been fixed in
2.6.21 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439167),
but it appears to resurface in some suspend scenarios:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f55c21fd9a92a444e55ad1ca4e4732d56661bf2e

Cheers,
        Moritz