ethernet failure after update to kernel-2.6.10-1.766

[Robert L Cochran]

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
>
>Did any of the other users with this mobo and ethernet adapter
>using 64bit FC3 get this same problem. 
>
>Is there a fix or will I have to revert to using the previous kernel.
>
>Alexander
>
>  
>
I'm surprised you have this problem. You must have made changes to your 
networking configuration -- even a seemingly tiny change can have big 
effects. I have the same motherboard -- I've forgotten the version 
number, I think it's a version 1 board. These are the messages that the 
766 kernel gives me:

Feb 17 18:03:13 bobcp4 ifup: Determining IP information for eth1...
Feb 17 18:03:14 bobcp4 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 
port 67
Feb 17 18:03:21 bobcp4 kernel: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce 
ethernet driver. Version 0.30.
Feb 17 18:03:21 bobcp4 kernel: eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01462:0250 
bound to 0000:00:05.0
Feb 17 18:03:21 bobcp4 kernel: eth1: RTL8169 at 0xffffff000001e000, 
00:11:09:61:11:6b, IRQ 201
Feb 17 18:03:22 bobcp4 kernel: r8169: eth1: link up
Feb 17 18:03:20 bobcp4 ntpd[4662]: Listening on interface eth1, 
192.168.1.14#123

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?

Other than that -- I have no problems with the onboard LAN.

Bob Cochran