PHY reset until link up?

[Alexander Volovics]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:12:55AM -0600, Jay Paulson wrote:
 
> I have just installed Fedora Core 3 on my AMD 64 and everything went 
> smoothly.  After installation I get the following message:

> r8169: eth0: PHY reset until link up
 
> I have googled this error and haven't found anything to help me out 
> trying to figure out what the problem is.  My only guess is that the 
> network interface is not connecting to the network for some reason.  
> Any suggestions on what steps I should take?

I have no solution. I reported the same problem on both the amd64-list
and fedora-list with subject 'ethernet failure after update to
kernel-2.6.10-1.766' (16 Feb). But nobody volunteerd a solution though one
other user confirmed seeing this.

Did you experience it immediately after the install with the 2.6.9
kernel or after updating to 2.6.10?
I was able to work for 2 months with the 2.6.9 kernel and updates
upto and including 2.6.10-1.760 without this occuring.
It started after update to 2.6.10-1.766 (immediately after rebooting)
and then also appeared with the older kernels. Sometimes it
disappeared for a couple of days before surfacing again.

(Luckily I have another inegrated ethernet adapter in the mobo that
 works without problems).

Can anybody here can confirm wether this is a hardware problem or
a kernel/driver problem. In the latter case I will bugzilla it.

Alexander