Hello. could you give the patch below some testing ? Any post-LLTX-revert 2.6.11-rc2-bk should do. Merge of Realtek's code - code dedicated to a new phy (spotted by Richard Dawe); - C+ register fiddl
Richard Dawe <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> : [...] So it can be considered that the link detection issue is gone. Ok, I'll ask Jeff to submit it for mainline. If this test is (sys) CPU bound, then you
Hello. Francois Romieu wrote: Richard Dawe <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> : [...] [snip] It works fine setting the speed & duplex using "ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed <speed> duplex <duplex>". Nice.
Hello. (it should apply correctly on top of you current setup) I can, with and without that patch. But I encounter problems bringing the interface back up and down again. If I do the following after
Richard Dawe <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> : [...] @#$*%! Patch against 2.6.11-rc3: http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20050211-2.6.11-rc3-r8169-test.patch Better ? Up-to-date patch-script v
Hello. I find that the "ip link set dev eth0 down" command hangs, consuming most of the CPU time (~99%). Note that I issued the "network" commands with about a second's delay between each command. @#
Hello. IRQ routing seems to be disabled in 2.6.10. I got a warning about an unhandled interrupt for the VIA 8255 (I think that's the right number) on shutdown. I'm wondering if there is some bad inte
Hello. Please see the attached, which are for running with 2.6.10. I included .config, Just In Case. [snip] Sorry, I booted into 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 by mistake. Attached are the ones from 2.6.10. Bye, Ri
Hello. I created a bug in the kernel bug tracker for this issue: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4049 I think it may just be an issue with x86_64 and ACPI, but I'm not sure yet. I don't yet hav
Hello. I've done some more investigation and I'm happy to report that I managed to get some decent network performance out of my laptop - 7.1Mbps. My laptop seems to have an embedded PHY rather than
Richard Dawe <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> : [...] Nice. Have you checked that ethtool performs correctly when you try to set the link parameters with the new code (+ plug/unplug cable) ? I'll change t
Hello. So I looked at the latest RealTek driver for Linux (version 220) and that has some separate initialisation code for RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_X (MCFG_METHOD_4, they call it). I ported that over to r816
Hi, could you give the patch below some testing ? Any post-LLTX-revert 2.6.11-rc2-bk should do. Merge of Realtek's code - code dedicated to a new phy (spotted by Richard Dawe); - C+ register fiddling
& out You're running into the (in)famous ethtool vs autonegotiation issue. If you do ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 10 duplex half I think it will probably work. The behavior you're describing ap
Hello. Francois Romieu wrote: Richard Dawe <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> : [snip] Sadly my box won't boot, if I disable ACPI. Can you give a look at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122145%22%