Jens Stroebel wrote: > Francois Romieu wrote: >> [...] >> It may help and/or accelerate things if you can narrow the fix(es) in >> the current r8169 serie.
> Instead, I built 2.6.21.5+[a patch I snatched from a mail communication > you had on 2007-06-20 > (Msg-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> )]. > I will attach it with this mail, as it is really small and you don't > have to dig around to know what I'm talking about. > > As I am no kernel-developer, I am not sure there are no undesired side > effects by applying this patch to this kernel; if you think there are > (could/should be), it would be nice if you could state that, so I'd > refrain from testing with this combination. Following up to myself: It seems like the patch is able to change things in a way which makes the machine lock up hard. Pity that, looked so promising at first... greets, jens -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23.....56.......drifting By caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, By the beans of Java do thoughts acquire speed, hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning, By caffeine alone do I set my mind in motion - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html