From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Romieu Subject: Re: R8101 driver link issue Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 00:01:41 +0100 Message-ID: <20080201230141.GA6518@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <47A37B04.3060909@switact.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Switact - Thomas Roes Return-path: Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:33868 "EHLO electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753715AbYBAXTH (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:19:07 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47A37B04.3060909@switact.nl> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Switact - Thomas Roes : [...] > Recently I got problems with a new motherbord using the Realtek RTL8101E > PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller. > > This card is recognised by the r8169 driver but.... it always gives me > "link down". Can you send the output of 'lspci -vvxxx' and the dmesg of a recent kernel ? It should include a line like this one: [...] eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xf8920000, 00:13:8f:ea:b1:5d, XID 38000000 IRQ 221 ^^^ [...] > So i searched for drivers to compile and came across the > r8101-1.006.tar.bz2 driver. Ok. [...] > -2 but unfortunately, also this new driver, although it get's loaded, it > still reports (ethtool eth0).... > current message level : 0x0..033 (51) > Link detected : no Can you send the output of mii-diag and try so force a reset with this driver ? -- Ueimor