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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc: David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Edward Hsu <edward_hsu@realtek.com.tw>
Subject: Re: Realtek 8168D: no active link (2.6.29.2)
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 23:57:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090517215724.GA7699@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905142322.n4ENMJP3028786@turbo.physics.adelaide.edu.au>

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Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au> :
[...]
> Indeed.  To follow up on this, as per my earlier email I left the machine
> disconnected from the mains all night - so it was truly "off" for about 9
> hours.  Just before coming to work I flicked it on and the "link" LED lit
> almost immediately.  So whatever the Realtek driver did, the resulting
> status would appear to be stored in some kind of non-volatile memory.  While
> it would appear that this has worked around the problem for me, it would be
> nice if the mainline driver could do this itself.

The attached patch is not complete but can you give it a try and check if
it makes a difference ?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Ueimor

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-17 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-09 14:03 Jonathan Woithe
2009-05-13 22:04 ` Francois Romieu
2009-05-14 11:49   ` Jonathan Woithe
2009-05-14 12:08   ` Jonathan Woithe
2009-05-14 17:45     ` David Dillow
2009-05-14 23:22       ` Jonathan Woithe
2009-05-17 21:57         ` Francois Romieu [this message]
2009-05-17 22:22           ` David Dillow
2009-05-18  0:17           ` Jonathan Woithe
2009-05-18 22:17             ` Francois Romieu
2009-05-18 23:43               ` Jonathan Woithe
2009-05-19 21:32                 ` Francois Romieu
2009-05-22  7:18                   ` Jonathan Woithe
2009-05-25 10:14                   ` Jonathan Woithe
2009-05-27 12:27                     ` Benny Amorsen
2009-05-28  0:09                       ` Jonathan Woithe
2009-05-28  8:40                         ` Benny Amorsen
2009-05-28 13:15                           ` Jonathan Woithe
2009-05-18 12:39           ` Jonathan Woithe

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