Bug#641919: VIA-Rhine II resetting: network connectivity lost

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Antonio,

Anotonio Marcos López Alonso wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 15:59 +0100, Antonio Marcos López Alonso wrote:

>>>                                           Network connection is lost
>>> somehow and dmesg outputs lots of:
>>>
>>> via-rhine 0000:00:12.0: eth0: Transmit timed out, status 0003, PHY status 786d, resetting...
>>> via-rhine 0000:00:12.0: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
>>>
>>> Resetting the machine fixes the issue.
[...]
> I effectively used noapic to apparently workaround the problem but in the long 
> run I found it just minimized the problem somehow (occurrences were less). 
[...]
> El Lunes, 19 de Septiembre de 2011, Ben Hutchings escribió:

>> I asked you to report this bug at <http://bugzilla.kernel.org>,
>> including the fact that 'noapic' works around it.  The product should be
>> 'Platform Specific/Hardware' and the component 'i386'.
>>
>> You won't be able to do that at the moment because that server is done,
>> but please try to do that in a week or so.  Then let us know the
>> bug number so we can keep track of it.

Did you end up passing this upstream?  I'd also be interested to hear if
more recent kernels behave differently (though I expect they don't).

Thanks,
Jonathan