Re: 2.6.3 RT8139too NIC problems

From: Nick Warne (nick_at_ukfsn.org)
Date: 02/24/04

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    > Funnily enough, I looked at this at work today and decided to check
    > against 8139too.c from 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 trees. There was a lot of
    > changes, but it appeared only to that file (i.e. nothing referencing
    > it) - so I have just built 2.6.3 with the 8139too.c source from 2.6.2
    > just to make sure it isn't code elsewhere (i.e. pci stuff?) that is
    > causing it.
    >
    > So far it is running perfectly. I will wait a while to test, and if
    > it doesn't show any problems, we can presume it is the changes that
    > caused this problem for me on my system.
    >
    > Enquiries to the HantsLUG seem to be that no-one else gets this
    > problem.

    This has solved the problem for me. Please can anyone tell me what
    details are required to provide a bug report on this strange one off
    issue, as I wouldn't know where to start.

    To recap:

    rtl8139too cards worked on all kernels up until 2.6.3 (like 3 years).

    The timeout issues started with 2.6.3 (using make oldconfig)... new
    settings applied.

    Tried lilo 'append="noapic" -> problem still persisted.

    After reading I changed: 2.6.2 source-> 8139too.c to replace new
    2.6.3 source-> 8139too.c -> rebuilt with same .config. No timeouts -
    all hunky dory.

    Thanks,

    Nick

    [root@Linux233 log]# lspci
    00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C585VP [Apollo
    VP1/VPX] (rev 23)
    00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA
    [Apollo VP] (rev 27)
    00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
    00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 02)
    00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139
    (rev 10)
    00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139
    (rev 10)

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