Subject: Re: E1000 stopped transmitting in rc3.

From: Auke Kok <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:54:28 -0700

Dave Jones wrote:
> With 2.6.17-rc3, my E1000 won't get a dhcp lease.
> Looking at tcpdump and ifconfig output, it's easy to see why.
> It's recieving packets, but the packets transmitted field
> of ifconfig never increases.
> 
> The last version I have built that worked ok was 2.6.17rc2-git3

*puzzled*

the only patch between 2.6.17rc2 and 2.6.17rc3 contains an rx-path patch, but 
nothing that affects tx. All the other patches sent earlier are queued for 
2.6.18 so they don't apply.

Auke