[ltp] x100e ethernet

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

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.

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