r8169 driver breaks on latest kernel

[Anders Karlsson]

* Jay Chandler <lists at sequestered.net> [20080310 22:35]:
> Howdy.  Fedora 8 user here, relatively new to the platform.
>
> I'm running a Linksys gigabit card that uses the r8169 driver.  Under 
> kernel 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 it works just fine.
>
> I upgraded this weekend to kernel 2.6.24.3-12.fc8, and while the driver 
> still loads, it doesn't detect the card correctly.
>
> lspci still shows the card as taking up its standard place on the PCI bus.
>
> A preliminary Google shows nothing on this issue.
>
> Forgive my ignorance-- what's the next step to troubleshoot this?

I think this falls in the category "2.6.24.3-12.fc8 kernel has issues"
and I'd suggest that you file a bug in Bugzilla, and to get your
system working, roll back to 2.6.23.15-137.fc8.

There has been some various issues reported with the 2.6.24.3-12.fc8
kernel, as has been debated quite a lot today on the -devel list.

HTH,

/Anders