[ltp] x100e ethernet

[Clinton Baker]

In case anyone cares, my NIC was determined to be bad by Lenovo.  The 
motherboard was replaced and the ethernet now works fine - left on for 
over a week with no problems.

However, they replaced by dual-core Turion board with a single Athlon. 
Lenovo's warranty database has the machine I bought as an Athlon 
processor.  No capability exists to change information in that database, 
so the final solution is to send me a new laptop.  Since the x100e is 
NLA, they are shipping an x120e.  But that won't be available to ship 
until the last week or so of June.  While I guess I'm happy to be 
getting a new machine, I really wish they could have just fixed mine on 
the first try.

As much as I dislike Dell, I know they would have overnighted me a new 
machine.

On 05/19/11 12:05, Clinton Baker wrote:
> Thanks for the responses.  Though it looks like most people are having
> trouble with link detection and autonegotiation, perhaps these cards are
> just flaky. The realtek card in my old Fujitsu p2120 was rock solid for
> 6 or 7 years, but maybe I had a good one.
>
> On 05/12/11 18:03, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 May 2011, Robert Tomsick wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 15:30 -0700, Clinton Baker wrote:
>>>> Has anyone else seen this on an x100e or another machine with the
>>>> RTL8111/8168B ethernet card? I've not yet found anything searching
>>>> google. This little thing is perfect in every way except for this one
>>>> problem.
>>>
>>> No, but it appears that the Realtek card you have has had plenty of
>>> issues in the past:
>>
>> Well, RealTek NICs are buggy, el-cheap-o _crap_, plain and simple.
>>
>> It should be possible to band-aid the driver enough that it will at least
>> try to keep the thing working, though. You'll have to look for r8169 bugs
>> in bugzilla.kernel.org, and help people track down and fix it.
>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/91895
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/347711
>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12411
>>>
>>> Ubuntu #347711 might be related to your issue, no?
>>
>> Looks like it, yes. But check comment #8 in
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12411.
>>