Francois Romieu wrote:

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 > As an option you can retrieve the url below which contains all the patches

above in a single patch-file:
http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20070522-2.6.22-rc2-r8169.patch

Thanks for providing the single patch file. I was able to compile the patched 
kernel (version 2.6.22-rc3) with the EEPROM option enabled. However, the NIC 
still does not work (r8169: eth0: link down). Please let me know what else I 
could do to help you.

Clemens