Re: RTL8139, the final patch ?

[Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>]

On Saturday 20 August 2005 21:53, you wrote:
> I have a problem with it:
> It's about patching, reverting, patching, reverting,...
> I got lost. That's why I asked for a... "straighter" one :-)

>> But I looked at what he said and found the real problem on my system (after 
>> all that):
>> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0403.1/1537.html

> It's about a configuration option in the kernel?
> The patch is about adding the option, if i'm right.

No, what happened was on 2.6.2 all was well.  When 2.6.3 came out I got these 
timeout errors on the NIC's - but using the 2.6.2 8139too.c file in 2.6.3 
worked.  Mr Hirofumi then took up the challenge and sent me patches.  Slowly 
he resolved the issue, but the conclusion was it wasn't the code causing it.

It was an option in my BIOS PCI level/edge settings as I posted.  People on 
laptops get this error, like you, but there is no BIOS option as such... :-/

Nick
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