Re: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)

Francois Romieu
2012-09-21T20:48:29Z

Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org> :
> So far, ping has failed *only* at this iteration of the make loop:

Ok.

Without the usual netdev watchdog message I presume ?

[...]
> Now, after 74 iterations, it looks as if the loop is stuck at the following:
>
> HEAD is now at 1ce4b16 r8169: spinlock redux.
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.38-r8/build
> M=/mnt/usb-disk/atom/usr/src/test-r8169/r8169 modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.38-r8'
> CC [M] /mnt/usb-disk/atom/usr/src/test-r8169/r8169/r8169.o
> Building modules, stage 2.
> MODPOST 1 modules
> CC /mnt/usb-disk/atom/usr/src/test-r8169/r8169/r8169.mod.o
> LD [M] /mnt/usb-disk/atom/usr/src/test-r8169/r8169/r8169.ko
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.38-r8'
>
>
> Should I wait for it to end?

No. I surely f*cked up something.

> Do you want me to post the whole log so far?

Please. It should gzip well. The complete dmesg with timestamps would be
welcome too.

Could you perform a test with your vendor's 3.2-something kernel and its
r8169 driver ?

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Ueimor