Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] 2.6.32 ralink ethernet

[Ashwin <ash...@gm...>]

On 29-Mar-10 2:08 PM, Dick Middleton wrote:
> Has anybody else seen the following behaviour:
>
> I've got a via mini-itx board which I use as a diskless client using
> stock Debian.  The root disk is an nbd device and I boot using PXE. The
> mini-itx board has 2 net interfaces of type Ralink RTL-8110SC/8169SC
> which uses the r8169 driver.
>
> On 2.6.30 this all works fine.  On 2.6.32 the MAC address of the net
> interface gets corrupted somehow.  The MAC address is correct at cold
> boot and the system starts but if a reboot takes place or even a power
> cycle using the power switch or a reset then the net interface has the
> first 4 octets of the MAC address set to zero.  Only completely removing
> power from the system will restore the MAC address and allow reboot.
> This is quite consistent and repeatable on my system.
>
> Debian has changed between 2.6.30 and 2.6.32 to remove non-free firmware
> but so far as I know this net card does not use downloadable firmware so
> I suspect that this is a problem with the r8169 driver.
>
> As Devil is probably quite often used on mini-itx and DL is going to
> settle on 2.6.32 I thought this might be relevant.
>
> Dick
>

I have a doubt about the udev rules for this interface, is it possible 
to check the same ?

with Regards,
ASHWIN