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[Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:22:46 on Tuesday Tuesday 13 October 2009, Per Jessen 
<per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > That didn't look like the last 20-30 lines, but like some of the
> > > first - there was no mention of the module being loaded.
> >
> > Nevertheless, those were the last lines in the output, as you can see
> > from noting the command prompt at the end. The first lines look
> > entirely different.
> >
> > And I can verify that the string "r8" occurs only once in the file,
> > in an entirely different connection. Neither does "eth0".
>
> I have justed checked a couple of my production machines which also use
> the R816X chip:
>
> 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)

That is the controller that is in this machine.

> 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
>
> They both use the r8169 driver - looking through my dmesg output (on a
> recently rebooted machine) I see e.g.:
>
> r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK-NAPI loaded
> eth0: RTL8168c/8111c at 0xf8884000, 00:24:21:5f:1a:b0, XID 3c4000c0 IRQ
> 218
> r8169: eth0: link up
>
> Granted, this is openSUSE 11.0, kernel 2.6.25.5-1.1-pae so maybe your
> dmesg will look slightly different.  If the module loads properly (like
> you said it did), I'm sure you'll something like the above.

As I said, there is nothing like that in dmesg. I'll try to reinstall the 
driver, and hope it takes this time.

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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