On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 07:56:33PM -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote: > Alexander Volovics wrote: > >This afternoon I updated to kernel-2.6.10-1.766 on an AMD64 machine. > >MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum mobo using the Realtek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet > >adapter. > >On rebooting networking did not come up and I got the kernel message > >kernel: r8169: eth1: PHY reset until linkup > I'm surprised you have this problem. I am even more surprised than you are :) > You must have made changes to your networking configuration -- even > a seemingly tiny change can have big effects. Nope. The only thing I did was update the kernel to 766 and then reboot! (Googling shows this "PHY reset" thingy to have been a pest on 2.6.9 kernels with Gigabit Ethernet, it presumably was 'patched away'). > When Fedora Core 3 first came out, I had no success getting the > forcedeth driver to actually work on eth0 -- I simply gave up on it, > which was easy since eth1 (the RTL8169) works just fine. I have not > tried to get eth0 to work in recent times. Maybe the kernel has a > revision to the forcedeth driver that gets it to work? I have never even tried using eth0. I installed 64bit FC3 and configured eth1 (RT8169) and used it happily ever after until this incident. Luckily it 'automagically' went away when I booted the following day. But if it happens again, at a following kernel update, I will bugzilla it. (Not only did I keep getting the pesky message but I could not connect to the internet even though ethernet seemed to be up after a manual 'ifup eth1'. Something PHY related presumably needed to be 'reset' again, but what and how?) Alexander
