Comment 9 for bug 114171

It would be nice if any developer could comment on this problem.

Maybe someone could pass this problem on to the kernel developers.
I don't know how a driver (r8196) like this could make it in to kernel if it doesn't work right.

modinfo

filename: /lib/modules/2.6.22-12-generic/kernel/drivers/net/r8169.ko
version: 2.2LK
license: GPL
description: RealTek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver
author: Realtek and the Linux r8169 crew <email address hidden>
srcversion: E76EC316B2C797C735E45F0
alias: pci:v00001737d00001032sv*sd00000024bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000016ECd00000116sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001259d0000C107sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001186d00004300sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00008169sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00008168sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00008167sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00008136sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010ECd00008129sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.22-12-generic SMP mod_unload 586
parm: media:force phy operation. Deprecated by ethtool (8). (array of int)
parm: rx_copybreak:Copy breakpoint for copy-only-tiny-frames (int)
parm: use_dac:Enable PCI DAC. Unsafe on 32 bit PCI slot. (int)
parm: debug:Debug verbosity level (0=none, ..., 16=all) (int)

As you can see in the modinfo realtek is one of the authors, so I could not understand,
why this driver is so bad and the driver from the realtek homepage works so good.

best wishes
Achim