Public bug reported:
On laptop Asus M5N with Realtek ethernet RTL-8139/8139c/8139C+ (rev 10)
interface (works fine with 8139too driver). Asus M5N originally had
pre-installed XP Pro. I dual boot running Xubuntu 7.04. Occasionally I
boot Windows and run Windows Update. On doing this recently the Realtek
8139 driver was updated to version 5.6751.822.2007 dated 22/08/2007.
This update renders the Realtek 8139 interface useless in Ubuntu 7.04
and 7.10, openSUSE 10.3, Zenwalk 4.8, dsl 4 rc and others, though
sometimes a DHCP lease is obtained with correct route and DNS...but no
packets pass either way. Neither 8139too nor 8139cp drivers work.
Booting back into Windows and rolling back the driver to version
5.611.1231.2003 dated 05/02/2004 and then booting back to a Linux distro
removes the problem, the interface again works in Linux. I have repeated
this procedure several times (after a good long think about what had
happened to render my ethernet card useless after working flawlessly
for long periods in several distros!) and the fault/change is easily
reproduced and repeatable. I appreciate this is not a bug specific to
Ubuntu and assume this needs to be passed up to Realtek or Linux kernel
but I have no idea how to do this and hope that whoever maintains NIC
stuff for Ubuntu will be able to verify the problem and deal
appropriately. I am happy to re-introduce the problem on my Asus M5N
and pass on any information requested.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Realtek 8139 ethernet interface fails in Ubuntu (and several other Linux
distros) after changes made to interface by Windows Update
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156496
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