Subject: RE: r8169: link up, link down

From: "J. Christopher Pereira" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:23:04 -0400

Hi Francois:

Thanks for answering.

> If it's an XID 98000000 - i.e. old new hardware - you may try to remove
the device then rescan the PCI bus through sysfs.

dmesg says "eth0: RTL8110s at 0xffffc2000067ec00, 00:4f:4a:10:1e:cf, XID
04000000 IRQ 16".

> Building a modern kernel is strongly suggested if the hardware includes a
recent 816x chipset.

Is there any particular patch I could apply and just recompile the driver?
My hope was to first receive feedback and identify some probably related
known bug, in order to avoid searching for a solution by trial and error or
by updating the whole environment.