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Re: Realtek RTL8111E ethernet controler



On Mon, 07 May 2012 11:40:14 +0200, dagecko wrote:

> The onboard ethernet controler works fine with the latest 2.6 kernel
> available from the squeeze AMD 64, but does not work anymore on the
> latest 3.x kernel from wheezy.
> 
> The controler is recognized like this (lspci):
> 
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)
> 
> Below is the relevant part from dmesg at boot time on a kernel 3.2:

(...)

This looks good.

> Below is the relevant part from dmesg, when trying to get an IP on
> system with a kernel 3.2 running, with:
> 
> $ ifconfig eth0 down
> $ ifconfig eth0 up
> $ dhclient eth0
> 
> [  404.449202] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link down 
> [  404.449271] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link down 
> [  404.449810] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready 
> [  407.220919] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link up 
> [  407.221558] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready 
> [  417.352083] eth0: no IPv6 routers present 
> [  803.808083] ------------[ cut here ]------------ 
> [  803.808095] WARNING: at /build/buildd-linux-2.6_3.2.15-1-amd64-EOdTQR/linux-2.6-3.2.15/debian/build/source_amd64_none/net/sched/sch_generic.c:255 dev_watchdog+0xe9/0x148() 
> [  803.808102] Hardware name: MS-7640 
> [  803.808105] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit queue 0 timed out

(...)

You got a kernel oops. You better report it because we (plain users)
can't do much with that other than testing with another kernel or 
loading another driver which is not always desiderable/possible :-)

It can be related to this:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14962

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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