Subject: Re: r8169 with 3.9.0-rc9

From: Lance Lassetter <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:12:34 -0500

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:12:33PM -0500, Lance Lassetter wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:50:18PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> > Lance Lassetter <[email-masked]> :
> > [...]
> > > the box serves as a network router so it is causing abundant network
> > > traffic problems.
> > > 
> > > any debugging i could help you with, please let me know.  also if there
> > > is a possible solution, please let me know.
> > 
> > Is it a regression and / or an Asus M5A97 system ?
> > 
> > The XID lines that the kernel printed when the r8169 module gets loaded
> > may help.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ueimor
> 
> lance@annun10 ~$ dmesg | grep -i xid
> [    6.370821] r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: RTL8168c/8111c at 0xffffc90000c70000, 00
> :22:19:28:86:61, XID 1c4000c0 IRQ 45
> [    6.371103] r8169 0000:04:09.0 eth1: RTL8169sb/8110sb at 0xffffc90000c7ec00,
> 48:02:2a:07:90:45, XID 10000000 IRQ 20
> lance@annun10 ~$
> 
> i don't think it's a regression and it's a Dell XPS 625 with an addon r8169 so there are two r8169 cards in the system.  it is a testing fedora repository system though with vanilla mainline kernel.
> 
> hope this helps,
> 
> lance

sorry for the lack of information thereof:

the conventional processor name is AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 940 Processor

i bought the computer back in like 2008, sorry.

it's an AMD 790FX motherboard chipset for eth0 (r8169i driver)

eth1 is a Roswell RC-404 PCI adapter (r8169 driver)

if regression means it didn't used to happen and now it's happening with a newer Linux OS/kernel then yes.  if regression means something different, i'm not sure.

i think it started with my installation of Fedora 18 which began with kernel 3.6 or 3.7, i really can't remember. it might have started with kernel 3.8.

before then all was OK.

hope this helps.

Lance Lassetter