Re: linux 2.6.9: r8169: eth0: PCI error (status: 0x8404). Device disabled.

[Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eamonn Hamilton <EAMONN.HAMILTON@xxxxxxxx> :
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> Anyway, The device was brought back to functioning order by removing the
> module and re-inserting it. I have to confess, I forgot to try simply
> downing/upping it, I'll ask my friend to try that should it happen
> again. Bizarrely, the frequency of it happening seems to be down for
> whatever reason - it took ~12GB traffic to cause it to happen this
> afternoon.
> 
> Anyway, hope this helps.

Yes. It suggests that it should not be too hard to add a hack for recovery.

I am a bit surprized with this isolated report though.

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Ueimor