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  1. Bug #564984
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 564984

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Laryllan (laryllan) wrote : Re: r8169 fails to autonegotiate speed/duplex

This problem affects me too.
It was introduced around the time when kernel version 2.6.31.20 was relesased. Before that update the network connection worked flawlessly. Therefore I am marking it as a regression.

I can reproduce this bug with the same steps Mathieu pointed out:
ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off