I use my machine regularly to ltsp boot client machines ssh to them and use nc to send partition images about the network. After upgrading to karmic this was not possible, due to the locking up. I have attempted an alternate fix installing realtek's 8168 driver.
lspci reports my card as a "RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)" I obtained the "r8168-8.014.00" driver and applied the patches as specified on http://www.jamesonwilliams.com/hardy-r8168 towards the end of the comments section there is a patch to be able to compile the driver with the 2.6.31-14-generic kernel, as there have been changes to some data structures required. Using this driver also should allow things like wol to work. I suspect the r8169 code is to blame. Oh and Ya! Bzflag isnt locking things up either. Given the prevalence of these chipsets I would have thought that sorting this out would be a priority. -- r8169 driver causes CPU soft lockup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/448827 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
