[Hardy] SRU: r8169 intermediate connection problems

[Stefan Bader]

Tim Gardner wrote:
> 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
> 
applied and pushed

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