From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Dillow Subject: Re: r8169c: Support for Realtek 8168DP chip? Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:49:30 -0400 Message-ID: <1254412170.12500.8.camel@lap75545.ornl.gov> References: <4AC494EC.8050405@ts.fujitsu.com> <1254404310.24972.4.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Rainer Koenig Return-path: Received: from emroute1.ornl.gov ([160.91.4.119]:42441 "EHLO emroute1.ornl.gov" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751287AbZJAPt3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:49:29 -0400 Received: from emroute1.ornl.gov ([127.0.0.1]) by emroute1.ornl.gov (PMDF V6.4 #31561) with ESMTP id <0KQU002GVEMKLJ@emroute1.ornl.gov> for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:49:32 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <1254404310.24972.4.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 09:38 -0400, David Dillow wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 13:39 +0200, Rainer Koenig wrote: > > The reason why is easy to decode when looking at the source: The > > TxConfig register returns 2b800000 and there is no MAC_VERSION in the > > list of valid versions. That means not PHY initialization code is > > executed and stop, no working device. :-( > > Francois Romieu posted a patch yesterday (today, his time) to the thread > "r8169 chips on some Intel D945GSEJT boards fail to work after PXE boot" > > It looks to add MAC support for your card; you should be able to find it > at any of your favorite mail archives, Google, or better yet, > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/ > > Hmm, patchwork doesn't seem to have picked it up, yet. Actually, it is there, you just need to change the filters to show patches in state "RFC".