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r8169 driver (MSI Wind Realtek Ethernet) broken on 2.6.27-11-generic

Bug #313081 reported by Juan Carlos Inostroza
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Bug Description

2.6.27-10-generic loads r8169 on MSI Wind perfectly:

root@arthur:~# dmesg | grep r8169
[ 4.864018] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
[ 4.864058] r8169 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 4.864091] r8169 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 4.864113] r8169 0000:01:00.0: unknown MAC (37a00000)
[ 50.841806] r8169: eth0: link up

on 2.6.27-11-generic, Network Manager loops getting an IP address on wired connection. After checking dmesg and removing r8169 driver a couple of times, the following appears on dmesg:

root@arthur:~# dmesg | grep r8169 (on 2.6.27-11)
[ 165.428202] r8169 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 173.196164] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
[ 173.196204] r8169 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 173.196218] r8169 0000:01:00.0: cache line size of 32 is not supported
[ 173.196230] r8169 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 173.196250] r8169: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -22

Upgraded to 2.6.27-11 this afternoon.

Workaround : keep booting 2.6.27-10-generic.

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Juan Carlos Inostroza (jci) wrote :

please close this bug, reported on the incorrect product.

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Chris Crisafulli (itnet7) wrote :

Marking bug as invalid based on Juan's comments. Here is a link in case anyone has an MSI wind and is having trouble getting it to work: http://k.dieplz.net/evolution/2008/11/22/wlan-in-ubuntu-8-10-on-new-msi-wind-u100/ it offers a good explanation of why there isn't a current driver package, and offers some suggestions. YMMV.

Changed in linux-restricted-modules:
status: New → Invalid
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Jeffrey Seguerra (jepong) wrote :

i'm confirming this bug after kernel update this morning. wired network not working anymore.

Changed in linux-restricted-modules:
status: Invalid → Confirmed
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Artyom Pervukhin (logus) wrote :

This bug also affects me. MSI Wind U90X. After upgrading kernel to 2.6.27-11 wired network does not work.

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)

I've also found some errors in syslog (attached).

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PetrB (petr-bug) wrote :

Chris, the page you mentioned (http://k.dieplz.net/evolution/2008/11/22/wlan-in-ubuntu-8-10-on-new-msi-wind-u100/) is related to WiFi card (RTL8187SE), not Ethernet (RTL8101E/RTL8102E, supposed driver r8169).

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LX (alexthkloss) wrote :

Juan Carlos, if the product is incorrect, please correct the product statement in this bug and don't call for closing it. I can confirm the existance of this bug too on my MSI Wind U-100.

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Konstantin Lavrov (lacosta) wrote :

I confirm this on LG X110 with r8169

Here are logs from 2.6.27-10 kernel with wired network working:

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Konstantin Lavrov (lacosta) wrote :
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Konstantin Lavrov (lacosta) wrote :
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Konstantin Lavrov (lacosta) wrote :

Here are logs after upgrade to 2.6.27-11 with not working r8169:

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Konstantin Lavrov (lacosta) wrote :
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Konstantin Lavrov (lacosta) wrote :
Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)
Changed in linux-restricted-modules:
importance: Undecided → High
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote :

Hi All,

I'm marking this as a duplicate of bug 326891 so that they kernel team has only one master bug to track for this issue. Please continue to follow up at that report and add any additional information that may be missing. Thanks.

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