I also have a r8169 nic, and I believe that this issue is related to gigabit auto negotiation. My cabling is not very good, and when the NIC auto negotiates 1000 Full Duplex I constantly get these errors:
Sep 13 17:14:00 he-man kernel: [ 1928.456477] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Sep 13 17:14:00 he-man kernel: [ 1929.271582] r8169: eth0: link up However, if the NIC auto negotiates 100 Full Duplex, it works fine. The problem is, the system must be rebooted to force the card to re- negotiate. I've tried using ethtool to force the speed/duplex but it appears to not be supported on this card, and pulling the plug also does not force the nic to re-negotiate. I will try with 2.6.27 if I can get the kernel packages without upgrading to Ibex... -- r8169 stops working after a while https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121815 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
