From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>

This patch fixes a problem plaguing Dell notebooks with built-in b44
ethernet: The driver refuses to transmit packets of any kind until after
the first 5-second tx_timeout occurs.  This bug causes DHCP negotiation to
fail (timeout) during installation of Ubuntu Linux.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 drivers/net/b44.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff -puN drivers/net/b44.c~b44-missing-netif_wake_queue-in-b44_open drivers/net/b44.c
--- devel/drivers/net/b44.c~b44-missing-netif_wake_queue-in-b44_open	2005-11-26 22:09:05.000000000 -0800
+++ devel-akpm/drivers/net/b44.c	2005-11-26 22:09:05.000000000 -0800
@@ -1417,6 +1417,7 @@ static int b44_open(struct net_device *d
 	add_timer(&bp->timer);
 
 	b44_enable_ints(bp);
+	netif_start_queue(dev);	/* prevent the initial tx_timeout() we otherwise see */
 out:
 	return err;
 }
@@ -2113,6 +2114,7 @@ static int b44_resume(struct pci_dev *pd
 	add_timer(&bp->timer);
 
 	b44_enable_ints(bp);
+	netif_wake_queue(dev);
 	return 0;
 }
 
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