From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rainer Koenig Subject: e1000e and Intel 82578DM, 10 Mbit/s only Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:39:33 +0100 Message-ID: <4B59AA95.4050207@ts.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from dgate10.ts.fujitsu.com ([80.70.172.49]:12628 "EHLO dgate10.ts.fujitsu.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750840Ab0AVNtX (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:49:23 -0500 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, I'm currently facing a problem on Intel Ibexpeak mainboards that have the Intel 82578DM chip for LAN. Device ID is 8086:10ef. When using the e1000e driver that comes with distributions like - Fedora 12 - RHEL 5.4 - openSUSE 11.2 then I only get the link up with 10 Mbit/s instead of 1000 Mbit/s. Driver version is 1.0.2-k2 (according to modinfo) If I use the e1000e from Sourceforge (Version 1.0.15 or 1.1.2) then the machine gets the correct Gigabit link. So some questions on the e1000e kernel driver: - will the necessary patches be merged from the sourceforge driver to the vanilla driver? - why is the modinfo version so "static" on this driver? I've seen lots of patches on the list archives and in git, but modversion seems to b= e an universal constant at "1.0.2-k2"? The bad impact of this problem is that with this bug of the kernel driver systems affected by this will not pass trough a Red Hat hardware certification network test. So guess what my current problem is: yeah, right I should do hardware certification with this LAN. Thanks for your attention & regards Rainer --=20 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rainer Koenig Project Manager Linux Business Clients Dept. TSP CLI R&D SW OSE =46ujitsu Technology Solutions B=FCrgermeister-Ullrich-Str. 100 86199 Augsburg Germany Telephone: +49-821-804-3321 Telefax: +49-821-804-2131 Mail: mailto:Rainer.Koenig@ts.fujitsu.com Internet ts.fujtsu.com Company Details ts.fujitsu.com/imprint.html