Comment 13 for bug 326891

I just tested the kernel amd64, took 6 minutes for my pc to boot and no network once it was.

dhclient eth0 didn't work.

a lot more """r8169: eth0: link up""" lines were adding up.

The hardware used for the test was:
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)

dmesg | grep -E r8169\|Linux\|eth0
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.27-11-generic (root@magrathea) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu11) ) #1 SMP Tue Feb 10 19:39:41 UTC 2009 (Ubuntu 2.6.27-11.27b326891v1-generic)
[ 0.004000] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[ 0.806629] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[ 2.359857] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[ 3.884004] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
[ 3.884058] r8169 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 3.884087] r8169 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 3.884110] r8169 0000:01:00.0: unknown MAC (27a00000)
[ 3.884966] eth0: RTL8169 at 0xffffc200004ec000, 00:1c:c0:6f:3e:64, XID 24a00000 IRQ 2300
[ 26.272027] r8169: eth0: link up
[ 118.420014] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 122.816044] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit timed out
[ 122.816049] Modules linked in: ppdev lp cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_stats freq_table container pci_slot video output sbs sbshc wmi battery ipv6 nls_cp437 cifs af_packet dm_crypt crypto_blkcipher dm_mod ac smsc47m1 smsc47m192 hwmon_vid i2c_i801 i2c_core snd_hda_intel serio_raw snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss psmouse evdev snd_pcm pcspkr snd_seq_dummy parport_pc parport iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi button snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device snd soundcore intel_agp shpchp pci_hotplug snd_page_alloc ext3 jbd mbcache sd_mod crc_t10dif sg ata_generic pata_acpi usbhid hid ata_piix libata scsi_mod dock ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore r8169 mii thermal processor fan fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor
[ 123.636032] r8169: eth0: link up
[ 159.632030] r8169: eth0: link up
[ 201.632030] r8169: eth0: link up
[ 237.632032] r8169: eth0: link up
[ 315.632031] r8169: eth0: link up