Hi, I applied this patch (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573007#54) on March 29[1], but unfortunately, the bug is still there for me. More precisely, my script which detects and works around the problem triggered at the following times since then:
Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:11:18 +0200 Attempt to reinitialize Ethernet interfaces Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:21:39 +0200 Attempt to reinitialize Ethernet interfaces Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:42:20 +0200 Attempt to reinitialize Ethernet interfaces Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:27:03 +0200 Attempt to reinitialize Ethernet interfaces (sorry, I was too busy to report before) I just modified it so that it also logs the HW address of the Ethernet interface that was detected as failed, and will report next time I have a failure, to make sure we are really talking about the same bug (I also noticed #516187...). Thanks. [1] As I wrote to Ben Hutchings in private, I applied the patch on the source tree obtained from linux-source-2.6.32_2.6.32-10_all.deb and compiled with the standard kernel configuration options from linux-image-2.6.32-4-amd64_2.6.32-10_amd64.deb (/boot/config-...) I also investigated the following boot messages: [ 1.449790] r8169 0000:02:00.0: firmware: requesting rtl8168d-2.fw [ 1.529423] eth0: unable to apply firmware patch [ 2.338209] r8169 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting rtl8168d-2.fw [ 2.339586] eth1: unable to apply firmware patch but found no place to download the firmware file from, despite several people complaining about that and not finding the aforementioned file either. Apparently, the firmware file is not needed, or only for some model(s) if used in this or that way, but the message is always printed, no matter what. -- Florent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org