From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: Bug: alx: Atheros AR8131/AR8151/AR8152/AR8161 Ethernet driver Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:57:52 -0700 Message-ID: <20130805225752.14e843f7@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Kinley Dorji Return-path: Received: from mail-pb0-f50.google.com ([209.85.160.50]:50028 "EHLO mail-pb0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753036Ab3HFF5z (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Aug 2013 01:57:55 -0400 Received: by mail-pb0-f50.google.com with SMTP id uo5so4330240pbc.9 for ; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 22:57:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 11:31:39 +0600 Kinley Dorji wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to report a bug that has been introduced since the mainlining > of the NIC drivers originally in the package AUR/dkms-alx pertaining > to the above mentioned network cards. > > Kernels affected: 3.10.1 - 3.10.5 > All worked well for kernels <= 3.9.9 > > Environment in which it occurs: > > kernel: >= 3.10 > conky: any version (gui/cli) > NIC: Any one of the above family > > conky variables that probe the NIC all return nothing or 0: eg: > upspeed, upspeedgraph, downspeed, downspeedgraph > > A small discussion on the issue: > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=166555 > > Network connectivity itself is not a problem - connection works and is stable > > Conky isn't the problem because it works in kernels <= 3.9.9 with dkms-alx. > What is conky using to read the variables. Perhaps looking at CLI tools like: ip -s -d li show dev eth0 or ethtool -S eth0 would give some indication of which variables are not being incremented.