[Hardy] SRU: r8169 intermediate connection problems

[Tim Gardner]

Stefan Bader wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/324760
> SRU justification:
> 
> Impact: There is a register which is only valid for r8169 chipsets but
> currently gets used unconditionally. Also only the lower 3bits of that
> register are valid.
> 
> Fix: Backport of upstream fix:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=523a609496dbc3897e530db2a2f27650d125ea00;hp=e93dcb11dd6468000f2f018bd887e94b074ce931
> 
> 
> Testcase: Manual network setup with r8169 based network card sometimes
> gets connection problems as described below.
> 
> Reported by emgent:
> 
> The problem is that r8169 driver don't work fine in Hardy heron, some
> times dhclient go to sleep and do not assign real IP Address. After
> reboot sometimes work and sometimes not.
> 
> This issue has only be seen on ubuntu-server. This might be due to
> NetworkManager does some tweaks to get around this.
> 

ACK

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