Bug#585420: r8169 shows broken MAC address (and possibly r8169 is broken at all)
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-3-686
Version: 2.6.32-9
Severity: important
I have Realtek ethernet controller on VIA system:
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
With 2.6.32 it had problems with IRQ:
[ 19.000671] r8169: eth0: link up
[ 19.000718] r8169: eth0: link up
[ 19.300868] irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
[ 19.300882] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G C 2.6.32-3-686 #1
[ 19.300888] Call Trace:
[ 19.300902] [<c106d4e1>] ? __report_bad_irq+0x24/0x69
[ 19.300910] [<c106d4e8>] ? __report_bad_irq+0x2b/0x69
[ 19.300920] [<c106d60d>] ? note_interrupt+0xe7/0x13e
[ 19.300929] [<c106db3b>] ? handle_fasteoi_irq+0x7a/0x97
[ 19.300941] [<c10053cf>] ? handle_irq+0x17/0x1b
[ 19.300949] [<c1004c51>] ? do_IRQ+0x38/0x89
[ 19.300958] [<c10037f0>] ? common_interrupt+0x30/0x38
[ 19.300973] [<c101b074>] ? native_safe_halt+0x2/0x3
[ 19.300982] [<c1008ebb>] ? default_idle+0x3c/0x5a
[ 19.300990] [<c1002388>] ? cpu_idle+0x89/0xa5
[ 19.301004] [<c13a3800>] ? start_kernel+0x30c/0x311
[ 19.301009] handlers:
[ 19.301013] [<f839b848>] (rtl8169_interrupt+0x0/0x283 [r8169])
I added "irqpoll" option to the kernel command line. IRQ problem seems to be gone, but know controller doesn't work. I can see it in ifconfig, but it's MAC address is "00:00:00:00:00:0f" (should be "00-21-11-00-00-0f"). My router assignes DHCP addresses according to client's MAC, and after upgrading to 2.6.32 I cannot get DHCP address. I can add rules for "00:00:00:00:00:0f" on my router, but nevertheless, ethernet controller cannot get DHCP address again. It seems to be a r8169 bug in 2.6.32. I've backported some changes from 2.6.34, and now my controller works fine. Backports are in attached patch. It will be great to backport all bugfixes from .34 (AFAIU, it must be done in upstream, since .32 is an LTS).
Thanks!
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Regards, Krasu
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