2.6.27-8 kernel has made wired ethernet drop out regularly

[ear9mrn]

Since upgrading to 2.6.27-8 my ethernet connections has become very unstable. Works for about the first 1-2mins then drops out and is very unresponsive. I have to disable and re-enable to get it to work again. Best solution so far is to boot to old kernel.

Pete.

[Adam McDaniel (adamrmcd)]

Can you provide any more information like, your model, dmesg output, /var/log/daemon.log output,..

[ear9mrn (pete-nevill)]

Hi Adam,

I am running a eeepc 1000HA. Nothing suspicious from the dmesg but /var/log/daemon.log has the following.

[ 1143.706260] UDP: bad checksum. From 192.168.1.1:53 to 192.168.1.6:58620 ulen 71
[ 1743.660877] UDP: bad checksum. From 192.168.1.1:53 to 192.168.1.6:53052 ulen 71
[ 2343.648086] UDP: bad checksum. From 192.168.1.1:53 to 192.168.1.6:42693 ulen 71
[ 2343.751036] UDP: bad checksum. From 192.168.1.1:53 to 192.168.1.6:58162 ulen 111
[ 2343.811418] UDP: bad checksum. From 192.168.1.1:53 to 192.168.1.6:57259 ulen 75
[ 2343.866173] UDP: bad checksum. From 192.168.1.1:53 to 192.168.1.6:42771 ulen 66
[ 2343.926515] UDP: bad checksum. From 192.168.1.1:53 to 192.168.1.6:46617 ulen 82
[ 2343.986726] UDP: bad checksum. From 192.168.1.1:53 to 192.168.1.6:53443 ulen 82
[ 2344.058730] UDP: bad checksum. From 192.168.1.1:53 to 192.168.1.6:53459 ulen 111
[ 2344.118030] UDP: bad checksum. From 192.168.1.1:53 to 192.168.1.6:39416 ulen 111
[ 2344.180948] UDP: bad checksum. From 192.168.1.1:53 to 192.168.1.6:52155 ulen 111
[ 2344.242791] UDP: bad checksum. From 192.168.1.1:53 to 192.168.1.6:48504 ulen 144

The little eeepc also has a windows license stuck to the bottom and I am wondering if that could be causing a problems too ;-)

Let me know if you need any more info.

Pete.

[Alex Fuchs (al-fox)]

After Installing Easy peasy 1.0 with kernel 2.6.27-8 on a eee 701 S had poor wifi reception.
Adding backport modules generic & kernel 2.6.27-14-generic the Atheros 802.11 driver was installed and signal strength and stability got much better.
Am now trying kernels 2.6.27-13-eeepc & 2.6.27-13-eeepc-lean (Intrepid proposed) and wifi reception is fair but still weaker and fluctuates more than with the generic module.