It took a bit longer than expected but the backport of the r8169 driver has been updated for kernel 2.4.29.
Noticeable changes since 12/2004: - better handling of PHY as found on Acer Aspire 1524WLMi (Richard Dawe); - fix a bug triggered when the device is brought down then up again; - avoid a few lost/screaming interrupts; - closed a race when a change of mtu is issued during network activity; - fix VLAN on big-endian hosts; - merge relevant changes from Realtek's 2.2 driver; - ethtool stats (Stephen Hemminger); - ethtool msglevel support (Stephen Hemminger); - fix Rx descriptors f*ckup [*]; - fix incoming frame length check [*]. There are probably some bits of Jon Mason as well but I'm too lazy to check and the whole detail is available in the patch-script directory. If your r8169 device will never receive oversized frames nor can it experience a really high packet per second stream (count 50kpps as low), the items marked [*] make no difference. If the adapter is on a public lan and/or it does not use the default 1500 MTU, you almost surely want these. If it worked for you before, you should not notice anything. Patch against 2.4.29/2.4.30-rc3: - http://www.fr.zoreil.com/~romieu/misc/20050326-2.4.29-r8169-test.patch Patch-script directory (65 patches): - http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.4.x/2.4.29/r8169/ Patch-script tarball: - http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.4.x/2.4.29/r8169-blob.tar.bz2 As usual, success/regression reports will be welcome. Thank you for your attention. -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/