Comment 40 for bug 181081

Very sorry hit enter by mistake...

Description of problem:
My gigabit ethernet card used to work with kernel before 2.6.24, now it doesn't

Additional info:
lspci -v:
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI
Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 11f5
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
 I/O ports at c800 [size=256]
 Memory at dcfff000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Expansion ROM at dcfe0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
 Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
 Capabilities: [48] Vital Product Data <?>
 Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable-
 Capabilities: [60] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
 Capabilities: [84] Vendor Specific Information <?>
 Kernel driver in use: r8169

relevant dmesg:
...
eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xffffc2000001e000, 00:18:f3:32:78:91, XID 38000000 IRQ 11
...
r8169: eth0: link up

Which is exactly identical to what it said in 2.6.23...