Re: Realtek RTL8111/8168B death

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:32:23 +0200, Gareth de Vaux wrote:

> Hi all, after about 3 weeks into a new machine the network card started
> dying pretty regularly with these oopses:
> 
> Aug 21 23:03:49 fire kernel: [ 2656.192450] ------------[ cut here ]------------ 
> Aug 21 23:03:49 fire kernel: [ 2656.192457] WARNING: at /build/buildd-linux_3.2.23-1-amd64-zj7gxu/linux-3.2.23/net/sched/sch_generic.c:255
> dev_watchdog+0xe9/0x148() 
> Aug 21 23:03:49 fire kernel: [ 2656.192459] Hardware name: H61M-DS2 
> Aug 21 23:03:49 fire kernel: [ 2656.192460] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit queue 0 timed out 

(...)

Google find lots of reports like this. 

As you seem to be running Wheezy stock kernel I would open bug report in 
Debian BTS for this (if there's still none already opened). You can include 
this kernel patch as a possible fix:

***
r8169: revert "add byte queue limit support".
***

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón