Bonjour Francois!

If you feel adventurous, you will find a compile-tested-only patchkit for
2.6.21.5 here:
http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.21.5
or:
http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20060630-2.6.21.5-r8169-test.
patch

The content should be almost the same as the 2.6.22-rc6 patchkit dated
from 2007/06/28 (i.e. pending 2.6.23 merge).

Many thanks!

The patch applies without failure; I'm getting a warning during build,

  CC [M]  drivers/net/r8169.o
drivers/net/r8169.c: In function ‘rtl8169_start_xmit’:
drivers/net/r8169.c:2341: warning: ‘txd’ may be used uninitialized in this 
function

After installing and loading the new driver, I still do have a gigabit 
connection, which is good. I'll be reporting about the suspend/resume 
behaviour next.

regards,
Peter