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

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Robbert Haarman wrote:

> I compiled a vanilla 3.2.0-rc4 kernel and that seems to fix the problem.

Nice to hear.

> I am going to catch some sleep now. If you need me to bisect things,
> provide more info, contact people, or whatever, please let me know.

Yes, one more test.  Could you try the latest squeeze or
squeeze-proposed-updates kernel to see if it is affected?

Aside from that, please keep us posted.  Once the dust settles with
upstream RxFIFOOverflow fixes, there will probably be another patch to
try.

Thanks again,
Jonathan