From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Romieu Subject: Re: r8169 won't transmit with 3.12 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:36:30 +0100 Message-ID: <20140121233630.GA3214@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20140121000615.GA30495@enc.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Realtek linux nic maintainers , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Craig Small Return-path: Received: from violet.fr.zoreil.com ([92.243.8.30]:34868 "EHLO violet.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754151AbaAUXgo (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:36:44 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140121000615.GA30495@enc.com.au> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Craig Small : [...] > It's a new setup so it might of never worked. It's not likely to be a > hardware problem as its three different devices. You may check that the onboard nic device does not even work when the extra PCI-e card aren't plugged. > I've sent what I think you might need for starters, but if there > is extra stuff you'd like to see, let me know. A complete dmesg including the XID lines that the r8169 driver prints would be welcome. > The problem shows up the same, the TX dropped counter increments. > I'm not sure why 42 packets made it out (or even if they really did) > Receive works fine, I can even start up wireshark and see packets > pass by. > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:e0:4c:80:66:57 > inet addr:192.168.1.222 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4cff:fe80:6657/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:8252 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:8029 overruns:0 carrier:0 There are very few places where the r8169 driver modifies tx_dropped. Please increase the driver verbosity with the 'msglvl' option of ethtool. [...] > ethtool -S shows a similar story, not sure if the rx_missed counter > is another problem: It seems safe to ignore as long as it does not change after startup. -- Ueimor