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  1. Bug #223656
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 223656

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Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) wrote : Re: RTL8102EL NIC chip cause Ubuntu 8.04 LiveCD boot up fail fail

SRU Justification:

Impact: r8169 driver crashes during boot.

Patch description: The PCI device pointer is initialized prior to be dereferenced.

Patch: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-hardy.git;a=commit;h=222947b1ea81041269639ddb2033f252a5e0ed25

TEST CASE: Certain motherboards with an r8169 ethernet device crash on boot.