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Re: where is the proper place for r8169 bug reports?

To: "Dale E. Martin" <dale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: where is the proper place for r8169 bug reports?
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:23:42 +0100
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In-reply-to: <20050131215948.GA23289@gerbil.toadis.porkis>
References: <20050131181508.GA15908@gerbil.toadis.porkis> <20050131214951.GA13217@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20050131215948.GA23289@gerbil.toadis.porkis>
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Dale E. Martin <dale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
[...]
> Hmmm, OK.  I'm running Debian stable so that is what cc defaults to.  I'll
> recompile with 3.3 and see if the problems go away.  It could easily
> explain the difference between machines too.

Typical symptoms: the card works fine until 64 (256) packets are sent
(received) then "Good bye Charlie".

If it works, I'll gladly welcome an 'lspci -vx' + complete dmesg for my
collection.

Btw, you can test the patch below (on top of 2.4.28, no bad report so far):
http://www.fr.zoreil.com/~romieu/misc/20041209-2.4.28-r8169.c-test.patch

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Ueimor

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