[Hardy] r8169: intermediate connection problems on server
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Stefan Bader | ||
Hardy |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
SRU justification:
Impact: There is a register which is only valid for r8169 chipsets but currently gets used unconditionally. Also only the lower 3bits of that register are valid.
Fix: Backport of upstream fix: http://
Testcase: Manual network setup with r8169 based network card sometimes gets connection problems as described below.
Reported by emgent:
The problem is that r8169 driver don't work fine in Hardy heron, some times dhclient go to sleep and do not assign real IP Address. After reboot sometimes work and sometimes not.
This issue has only be seen on ubuntu-server. This might be due to NetworkManager does some tweaks to get around this.
Changed in linux: | |
assignee: | nobody → stefan-bader-canonical |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → In Progress |
http:// kernel. ubuntu. com/git? p=ubuntu/ ubuntu- hardy.git; a=commitdiff; h=4b4eb2b4b05e1 a96c6900dc3f28f 743c0b57ff7c