Realtek 8101E net device unstable after cool booting Lenny

I am using le...@i686 with an onboard PCI Realtek 8101E network controller. Lenny modprobe r8169 for this device. After cool bootup (computer powered off and then power on), from time to time the network controller will give no response. However, in case of warm boot (OS reboot), it always wor

Lenny sometimes hangs during boot up with Splashy

Lenny boots up, with Splashy 0.3.13 as startup splash, from NFS server. But sometimes, it hangs during bootup. When it hangs: .. no response to any keyboard including F2; .. can response to echo request by ping from other hosts; .. about 50% of progress bar passed; .. no remote ssh login since ssh