https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702205 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702205#c2 Sven Hartrumpf changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |hartrumpf@gmx.net --- Comment #2 from Sven Hartrumpf 2011-11-01 08:35:09 UTC --- I can reproduce this problem on several independent machines. My solution was to switch to a driver as distributed by www.realtek.com. Why is this bug not addressed? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702205 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702205#c Jeff Mahoney changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|kernel-maintainers@forge.pr |bpoirier@suse.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702205 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702205#c5 Benjamin Poirier changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |pilot.mm@gmail.com --- Comment #5 from Benjamin Poirier 2012-03-13 18:33:38 UTC --- *** Bug 709886 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709886 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702205 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702205#c7 --- Comment #7 from Benjamin Poirier 2012-03-19 15:45:38 UTC --- (In reply to comment #6)

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1) In/against openSUSE 12.1: [opensuse] Install help for Network driver (Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:27:02 -0400) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2012-03/msg00676.html especially: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2012-03/msg00765.html

There is some confusion in that thread:

As suspected your software system uses a r816*9* kernel module (...9) but your hardware is a Realtek [...] RTL8111/816*8*B [10ec:816*8*] (...8).

Despite it's name, the r8169 module is meant to drive cards based on the realtek 8168/8111 chips. The difference between the two modules is that: r8168 is a binary-only driver provided by realtek r8169 is a community-developped and supported driver While it is the case that r8168 usually supports newer chips first, the version of r8169 currently in openSUSE 12.1 supports all the chips I've seen in circulation so far. IMO, steering users towards r8168 is ill-advised as it will be extremely difficult to find some developpers willing and able to provide support for it. Secondly, lspci output is insufficient to determine the chip version as many of them share a small set of pci ids. A first step in identifying the chip version is the (masked) XID line found in the kernel logs as pointed out at the end of comment 4. The chip version is identified from the (unmasked) XID in rtl8169_get_mac_version() http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.1.10/drivers/net/r8169.c#L1724 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702205 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702205#c9 Benjamin Poirier changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |CLOSED InfoProvider|Happy.Cerberus@gmail.com | Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #9 from Benjamin Poirier 2012-03-22 19:00:45 UTC --- Since the release of openSUSE 12.1, openSUSE 11.4 is now getting important security and bug fixes only. From what I can tell, the problems reported here are related to support for new hardware on 11.4 so I'll go ahead and close this bug entry. I'm sorry we could not address the reporter's problem earlier but now 12.1 has been out for a few months and it has support for newer realtek chip versions. If you experience kernel crashes related to the in-kernel r8169 module on 12.1 please do open a new bugzilla entry (leave a comment here pointing to the new one if you wish) and make sure to include the XID line from dmesg in that new entry (as well as OOPS output or other relevant info). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.