Re: Acer Aspire 1524WLMi and RealTek 8169 - very slow

[Richard Dawe <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello.

I've got it working with 10Mbps full-duplex now. Here are the lines from 
modprobe.conf:
  alias eth0 r8169
  options eth0 use_dac=0 media=0x2

I tried to build version 2.2 of the driver from RealTek 
<http://www.realtek.com.tw/> but that fails, because it uses 
pci_dma_sync_single(), which now appears to have been split into 
pci_dma_sync_single_for_cpu() and pci_dma_sync_single_for_device().
Looking at the specs for the 8169, I see there is a version called an 
8110SB. I wonder if I have that version? That might explain this message 
in the dmesg output:
  r8169: PCI device 0000:00:0c.0: unknown chip version, assuming RTL8169

Bye, Rich =]

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