On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Tom <uebersh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I've upgraded to the 2.6.29-gentoo sources. > I've build everything as usual, and sofar, everything seems to be > working. > Except that my network device 'dies' (not permanently) after working > flawlessly for maybe 10min. > > Booting a 2.6.28 kernel, I have no such issues. > Restarting /etc/init.d/net.eth0 has no effect, and using ifconfig > up/down eth0 just times out. > > The drivers are all there as they should be, could this be somekind of > weird regression? I'm using the Uli M526x driver, found under the > 'tulip-family'
Could be related to a similar problem someone reported on the Gentoo forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-749474.html