From: Claudio Martins <ctpm@rnl.ist.utl.pt>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: usage of RealTek 8169 crashes my Linux system
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:41:27 +0100
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On Sunday 28 March 2004 21:37, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Bernd Fuhrmann wrote:
> >
> > Any idea how to fix it? Is that driver getting stable in the next months
> > or are there obstacles that should make me buy a different NIC (like
> > missing docs for that chipset and stuff like that)?
>
> Does Andrew Morton's -mm patches fix it for you?
>
> 	Jeff


 Hi,

  I'm also seeing hard crashes when using the r8169 driver, running a 32-bit 
2.6.4-rc1 kernel on a AMD64 system with a MSI K8T motherboard (VIA KT800). It 
has an onboard Realtek 8110S chip.
  When I stopped using the r8169 module the crashes stopped. Now using a PCI 
rtl8139 nic temporarily.

  Is there any way to apply these newer -netdev patches without resorting to 
-mm tree? This is a production machine, so I'd rather stick to linus' 2.6.x, 
but if there's no choice I'll try -mm...

 Thanks in advance for your attention.

Claudio

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