From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Harr Subject: Re: r8169 802.1q/MTU bug Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 19:27:26 -0500 Message-ID: <200505301927.26110.james@grickle.org> References: <20050530071148.GB1514@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Francois Romieu In-Reply-To: <20050530071148.GB1514@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi, The driver you sent gives me an error when I try to compile and load it with 2.6.11.11: # make [...] CC [M] drivers/net/r8169.o drivers/net/r8169.c: In function `rtl8169_down': drivers/net/r8169.c:2589: warning: implicit declaration of function synchronize_sched [...] # insmod drivers/net/r8169.ko insmod: error inserting 'drivers/net/r8169.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module It does a similar thing when I try to install it: # make modules_install [...] if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.6.11.11; fi WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.11.11/kernel/drivers/net/r8169.ko needs unknown symbol synchronize_sched As I noted in a previous email, it doesn't give me this problem when I have jumbo frames enabled on my switch. Since I found out my switch supported jumbo frames, I started to toy around with larger MTUs. When a VLAN's MTU was set to 7200, my system locked up. I didn't have this problem at 7196. Also, the crash problem wasn't there on a regular interface with no VLANs and the MTU at 7200. Thanks, James Harr On Monday 30 May 2005 2:11 am, you wrote: > James Harr : > [...] > > > I've been using a gigabit RealTek 8169 card for a while, I just recently > > started using 802.1q with them. I stumbled upon the problem described at > > the top of here: > > > > http://www.candelatech.com/~greear/vlan/howto.html > > Can you try the attached version of the r8169 driver with the latest > kernel ? > > If the issue is still there, it is almost surely the one you link to. > I'll give it a look when I'm back at home, it should not be long to fix. > > Please Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com (it is archived and googlable). -- James Harr http://www.grickle.org/