From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Denys Fedoryshchenko Subject: Re: r8169 not working under latest kernels Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 11:15:02 +0300 Message-ID: <106b9e6e996f2801b46b09c5bc5f168d@visp.net.lb> References: <6901a7785249816fe13a98e3c0b35127@visp.net.lb> <678d818cc06d1da382dc14397ad41c7e@visp.net.lb> <20130516225735.GB20140@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hayeswang , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Francois Romieu Return-path: Received: from hosting.visp.net.lb ([194.146.153.11]:45497 "EHLO hosting.visp.net.lb" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752707Ab3EQIPF (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 May 2013 04:15:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20130516225735.GB20140@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2013-05-17 01:57, Francois Romieu wrote: > Denys Fedoryshchenko : > On 2013-05-13 14:59, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: > [...] > >Noticed on 32-builds of my systems that r8169 is not working > >anymore at all. > >Problem started to occur somewhere after 3.6 kernels, but it is > >difficult to try other kernels on this semi-embedded system, and i am > >not completely sure about that. > >Once i used another OS build, but 64-bit build with same latest > >kernel, and it worked. > [...] > It is not only for that model, i faced this problem for many realtek > cards. Probably as i mentioned something specific (such as ifplugd > interface polling) causing that, but it is making almost all r8169 > cards unusable for me. > > 32-bit built KO vs 64-bit built OK does not ring a bell. I must go to > bed now but your .config and 32-bit r8169.ko will be welcome. > > Thanks. http://www.nuclearcat.com/files/config-r8169.txt I will try to use this config with 64bit kernel on same system (with 32bit same userspace), to be sure if there is any difference. --- Denys Fedoryshchenko, Network Engineer, Virtual ISP S.A.L.