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mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

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r8169 Module [Solved (kinda)]

I usually am in an office once a week when I have to hook my laptop to the wired (eth0) LAN port.  This always works just fine.  I didn't hook the laptop up last week.  Now this week I'm at a different office and trying to use the wired eth0 LAN port on my laptop and it doesn't work.

I boot with the LAN cable connected and I can see the lights on the LAN port flickering away -- UNTIL it starts loading modules.  Once the modules start loading (according to the colored, biiting screen) the LAN port just has all lights die.  I seem to be able to narrow it down to when the r8169 module loads.  Also, since between a working LAN connection and now one not working, there has been a kernel upgrade.  That's all that should have changed.

I did some searching on the internet and have tried:

1)  booting with apci=off noapic
2)  booting with pci=conf1
3)  Making sure Windows wants hogging the Realtek LAN card (eth0 is a Realtek)
4)  booting both with and without the LAN cable connected with all of the above.
5)  Removing the r8169 module and reloading it.

I have NOT tried builind the r8169 driver from Realtek's website.  I wanted to see if anyone had any clues before I go that far.  The same laptop dual boots and booting into Windows gets on the network just fine, so it's not the port, cable or "hardware" it would seem.

Any clues?

Last edited by mrunion (2007-12-26 21:14:50)

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mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

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Re: r8169 Module [Solved (kinda)]

OK, I "solved" the problem -- kinda.

Reference this thread for information.... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … +bug/86798.

More specifically, this worked for me:  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … omments/18

That thread came from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=538448

If I run:

mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth0

The card will start working, ifplugd picks it up and all is well.  It seems that something happened in the last couple of weeks to stop this thing working.  as best as I can tell things were fine in kernel 2.6.23.9-1, but since 12-xxx they seem to have stopped working.  I'm not blaming the kernel, though.

Last edited by mrunion (2007-12-26 21:14:27)

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Matt

alias f='rm -rf $1'
f /windows