Neal Becker ndbecker2@gmail.com : [...]
My wired r8169 stopped working. The driver is loaded - I don't see any errors. tcpdump reports nothing (except my own dhcp requests). NM won't connect.
Booted 2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64. Works.
I have repeated this several times.
Can you configure the IP address by hand and see if some traffic flows ?
If not, assuming you have a 8168 (which should be clear from the line including the 'XID' comment in the dmesg of your kernel), it could be worth to give the kernel a 'noapic, pci=nomsi' option at boot time.
One thing I don't understand - I'm sure r8169 has been working for me for quite a while after that last kernel update.
One thing - I DID get a bunch of yum updates last night - but none seem to be relevant.
The driver itself stood the same and the kernel has not changed much from 2.6.25 (2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64) to 2.6.25.2 (kernel-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64).
Something _must_ have changed though.