From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Romieu Subject: Re: Kernel driver r8169 not working for Realtek 8111E onboard network card Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:10:01 +0200 Message-ID: <20111024211001.GA16830@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <1319296941.68390.YahooMailNeo@web161905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <20111022214443.GA21689@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <1319482444.38178.YahooMailNeo@web161917.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: Adrian George Sav Return-path: Received: from violet.fr.zoreil.com ([92.243.8.30]:38210 "EHLO violet.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755993Ab1JXVNZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:13:25 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1319482444.38178.YahooMailNeo@web161917.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Adrian George Sav : > I don't know what you mean by "current -rc", the release candidate ve= rsion > of the kernel or maybe of the driver ? Recent 3.1-rc kernel. You can go with 3.1 now. [...] > Trying to solve this, I installed the latest version of ubuntu, becau= se I > saw it has a new kernel, 3.0.0.12, but no improvement. See below. [...] > [=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 0.000000] Linux version 3.0.0-12-generic (buildd@= vernadsky) (gcc version 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) ) #20-Ubun= tu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011 (Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4) [...] > [=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 1.893490] r8169 0000:07:00.0: eth0: RTL8168b/8111= b at 0xf802e000, f4:6d:04:40:36:6f, XID 0c900800 IRQ 48 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If it was recent enough, the kernel would say "RTL8168evl/8111evl". If you want to use jumbo frames, you will have to use David Miller's -n= ext branch or wait for 3.1-rc1. --=20 Ueimor