Problem with atl1c driver for AR8152 network card.

[Simon Slater]

	G'day all,
			I have seen a couple of unresolved references to this driver in 
bugzilla and some fixes for older Fedora and kernel versions that don't 
reliably work in F16.  

	Removing and reloading the atl1c module repeatedly will get it working 
less than 5% of the time yet when working may stay up for as little as a few 
seconds but sometimes for an hour or so.  The atl1e driver does not create an 
em1 device at all.

	Does anyone know of a fix for this?

The situation is:

[root at toshiba650 ~]# uname -r
3.2.6-3.fc16.x86_64
[root at toshiba650 ~]# ifconfig em1
em1       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:6C:64:85:0E  
          inet6 addr: fe80::226:6cff:fe64:850e/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3325 errors:71047 dropped:1040 overruns:0 frame:23923
          TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:347987 (339.8 KiB)  TX bytes:14942 (14.5 KiB)
          Interrupt:46 

[root at toshiba650 ~]# dmesg | grep atl1c
[   23.059344] atl1c 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[   23.059359] atl1c 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[   23.195859] atl1c 0000:02:00.0: version 1.0.1.0-NAPI
[   23.561012] atl1c 0000:02:00.0: vpd r/w failed.  This is likely a firmware 
bug on this device.  Contact the card vendor for a firmware update.                                                         
[   36.417987] atl1c 0000:02:00.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X
[   36.418199] atl1c 0000:02:00.0: atl1c: em1 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Half 
Duplex>

Regards

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Simon Slater

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