Re: No Gigabit with r8169 module

[Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>]

Dennis <dennismail@gmx.net> :
[...]
> I am trying to build up a gigabit network with the following equipment (all 
> from Netgear):

Same config here.

[...]
> Both PCMCIA and PCI Cards are running with the r8169 driver. The PC as the 
> laptop are installed with Suse 9.3.
[...]
> What I tried to do is to copy a folder from the laptop to the PC, which size 
> is about 6.1 GB. I am using KDE 3.4 and the konqueror with fish-protocol. The 
> copy dialogue says that this wold take about 2.5 hours with a average of 850 
> kbit/s. This is quite too slow for gigabit. 

- Which kernel are you using ?
- Can you try plain old scp -c blowfish $BIG_FILE in a text console (i.e.
  outside of X) and report the transfer rate ?
- If it still sucks, can you try 2.6.13-rc6 ?
- Please send:
  o complete dmesg after boot
  o lspci -vx
  o lsmod
  o cat /proc/interrupts + vmstat 1 during transfer
  o ethtool ethX

Do not hesitate to use bugzilla.kernel.org.

> Just to make sure that I didn´t make a hardware connection mistake, i tried 
> the connection with Windows XP and there, a folder which size is about 2.1 GB 
> takes about 10 minutes to copy - seems like gigabit is actually working with 

It means 3~4 Mo/s. Unimpressing.

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Ueimor