Re: r8169: only works in 10mbit/half duplex

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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Hi,

> It's hard to tell without data. It could be any of the usual suspects
> or a genuine bug.

Yeah, I realise that. I've tried booting windows which behaves exactly
the same, with the latest realtek driver. I've sent back the machine
today because I need to have this box up fairly soon. Sorry :/

> Can you send the complete dmesg from boot + lspci -vvx + /proc/interrupts
> of the computer ?

I don't have a dmesg any more, lspci is at
http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/files/lspci-minipc, /proc/interrupts
looked normal as far as I can remember. dmesg didn't say much about
r8169, and other than that I didn't see any problems. I tried booting
with pci=routeirq and some options but none of that helped, and
interrupts were definitely counted in all cases.

> What does ethtool report if you do not force it to 10Mbps with the media=1
> option and what hardware is it connected to ? Any URL for the motherboard ?

Here's the weirdest thing:
If I connected it to 100mbit/full duplex hardware, it worked only if I
forced it to 10mbit (half or full), otherwise the tx/rx led would blink
frantically and the card didn't receive any packets (sending was fine).
If I connected it to gbit hardware it worked in gibt mode, but only got
transfer speeds of about 10mb/sec. Same behaviour with windows.

johannes

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