Re: 2.6.3 RT8139too NIC problems

Nick Warne
2004-02-19T17:17:37Z

> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:47:08PM -0000, Nick Warne wrote:
> > >From my config file:
> >
> > # CONFIG_8139CP is not set
> > CONFIG_8139TOO=y
> > # CONFIG_8139TOO_PIO is not set
> > # CONFIG_8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER is not set
> > # CONFIG_8139TOO_8129 is not set
> > # CONFIG_8139_OLD_RX_RESET is not set
> > # CONFIG_8139_RXBUF_IDX= is not set
> >
> > No other NIC drivers are used.
> >
> > I am also stuck as to what the new RXBUF_IDX is for. It appears the
> > new build needs it, as I cannot remove.
> >
> So read the help entry in Kconfig. Before this change went in, pretty much
> everyone defaulted to a 32k receive ring size, which is also the current
> default. If you had used the default value of 2 instead of trying to hack
> around it, you might get better behavior from your driver..

Hi Paul,

My bad...

I did use the default 2... unfortunately that snippet I copied here
was what I tried to do to rebuild kernel with out it, but make just
adds the line back in CONFIG and asks what option I what.

So it is set to 2 as per the default.

So, corrected (and as the kernel was built):

# CONFIG_8139CP is not set
CONFIG_8139TOO=y
# CONFIG_8139TOO_PIO is not set
# CONFIG_8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER is not set
# CONFIG_8139TOO_8129 is not set
# CONFIG_8139_OLD_RX_RESET is not set
CONFIG_8139_RXBUF_IDX=2