[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#715211: base: Problem with ethernet realtek driver r8169

[kjabbe]

Package: base
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Dear Maintainer,

I have a problem with the realtek driver r8169. When upgrading to wheezy, and installing booting into kernel 3.2.0-4 i can not get a ethernet connection. Neither static or dhcp. Please se the dmsg:

[    7.810474] r8169 0000:05:00.0: eth0: link up
[    7.814064] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[   18.600078] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[   79.792029] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   79.792042] WARNING: at /build/linux-s5x2oE/linux-3.2.46/net/sched/sch_generic.c:256 dev_watchdog+0xf2/0x151()
[   79.792047] Hardware name: To be filled by O.E.M.
[   79.792050] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit queue 0 timed out
[   79.792054] Modules linked in: nfsd nfs nfs_acl auth_rpcgss fscache lockd sunrpc ext2 loop firewire_sbp2 snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek powernow_k8 mperf crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel aes_x86_64 aes_generic cryptd evdev nouveau fam15h_power pcspkr k10temp amd64_edac_mod edac_mce_amd edac_core mxm_wmi snd_hda_intel video snd_hda_codec sp5100_tco ttm i2c_piix4 snd_hwdep drm_kms_helper snd_pcm drm snd_page_alloc snd_timer power_supply snd i2c_algo_bit i2c_core soundcore wmi button processor thermal_sys ext4 crc16 jbd2 mbcache microcode ata_generic sg sd_mod crc_t10dif pata_atiixp ohci_hcd ahci libahci firewire_ohci libata r8169 mii scsi_mod firewire_core crc_itu_t ehci_hcd xhci_hcd usbcore usb_common [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
[   79.792136] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/3 Not tainted 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 Debian 3.2.46-1
[   79.792139] Call Trace:
[   79.792142]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff81046b75>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x78/0x8c
[   79.792156]  [<ffffffff81046c21>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x45/0x4a
[   79.792163]  [<ffffffff812a68c9>] ? netif_tx_lock+0x40/0x75
[   79.792173]  [<ffffffff812a6a39>] ? dev_watchdog+0xf2/0x151
[   79.792179]  [<ffffffff81052334>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x19a/0x261
[   79.792185]  [<ffffffff812a6947>] ? netif_tx_unlock+0x49/0x49
[   79.792193]  [<ffffffff810660a1>] ? timekeeping_get_ns+0xd/0x2a
[   79.792199]  [<ffffffff8104c1ac>] ? __do_softirq+0xb9/0x177
[   79.792205]  [<ffffffff81355dac>] ? call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[   79.792212]  [<ffffffff8100f8cd>] ? do_softirq+0x3c/0x7b
[   79.792217]  [<ffffffff8104c414>] ? irq_exit+0x3c/0x99
[   79.792224]  [<ffffffff810241c0>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x74/0x82
[   79.792229]  [<ffffffff8135461e>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x80
[   79.792232]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff81023e88>] ? lapic_next_event+0xe/0x13
[   79.792243]  [<ffffffff8102b36c>] ? native_safe_halt+0x2/0x3
[   79.792255]  [<ffffffffa00cbc51>] ? acpi_safe_halt+0x21/0x39 [processor]
[   79.792265]  [<ffffffffa00cc0bd>] ? acpi_idle_enter_c1+0x57/0xb3 [processor]
[   79.792276]  [<ffffffff8126f91d>] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0xec/0x179
[   79.792282]  [<ffffffff8100d243>] ? cpu_idle+0xa5/0xf2
[   79.792288]  [<ffffffff81340cfe>] ? start_secondary+0x1d5/0x1db
[   79.792292] ---[ end trace acd0b9ff985878ee ]---
[   79.808603] r8169 0000:05:00.0: eth0: link up
[  151.808610] r8169 0000:05:00.0: eth0: link up
[  217.808622] r8169 0000:05:00.0: eth0: link up

I have another system, running the same, CPU, debian version, kernel, and motherboard. Only difference i can find is in a newer version of BIOS.

Best regards
Jon-Anders Kabbe

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash