Bug#632138: linux-image-3.0.0-rc5-amd64: Network connection gets lost when screen goes blank (r8169, iwlagn)

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

reassign 632138 src:linux
thanks

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:05:28AM +0400, Anton Martchukov wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 3.0.0~rc5-1~experimental.1
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
> 
> My laptop is connected to wired network (RTL8111/8168B card) and when
> the screen goes blank (the laptop does not gets to sleep, just X blanks
> the screen) the network connection gets lost.
> 
> This problem did not exist in the kernel version 2.6.38 and it appeared
> in kernel 2.6.39. 
> 
> However there are some differences. When kernel 2.6.39 - 3.0.0 rc4 are
> used in order to recover network connection one needs to reboot the
> laptop completely. However in the latest 3.0.0 rc5 kernel from
> experimental it is enough to just restart the network-manager. 
> 
> I believe that this is kernel bug. No other changes are made to the
> software and if I now reboot back to 2.6.38 there will not be any issue.

Sorry for the late reply.

Does this still affect more recent kernels, e.g. Wheezy?

Cheers,
        Moritz