Bug#650771: r8169 connectivity intermittent, link up messages in syslog

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Robbert Haarman wrote:

> Here is the dmesg. This is with 2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64 and the r8169
> driver as shipped by Debian.

Thanks for the quick feedback.

[...]
> r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xffffc900117c6000, f4:6d:04:d3:08:de, XID 0c900800 IRQ 43

This is an RTL8168b, not a RTL8168c, so the fix from bug#642911
won't apply.  Good to know.

There have been some r8169 fixes upstream recently.  Please test
v3.2-rc3 or later once it hits experimental (or sooner, if you have
time to build from source).  The only packages from outside squeeze
that should be needed to try it aside from the kernel image itself are
linux-base and initramfs-tools.

Then we can take this upstream (that means netdev@vger.kernel.org,
cc-ing nic_swsd@realtek.com, Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>,
and either me or this bug log so we can track it).

Hope that helps,
Jonathan