From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: 8169 driver with NetGear GA511 card. Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:18:00 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <41802CA8.8070900@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: "'netdev@oss.sgi.com'" Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org I got one of the new GigE cardbus nics today, and it just started working when I put it in (uses 8169 chipset evidently). How refreshing! I tried stressing it, and it can handle about 30Mbps bi-directional (1514 byte pkts). I was hoping for better...but not too bad. A bit later, my keyboard just stopped working. The scratch pad and USB mouse continued to work. System wouldn't shut down all the way either...forced fsck, system is back online. The keyboard hang is reproducible...seems to happen as soon as I insert the NIC. Kernel is 2.6.9 + my networking patches, compiled for pentium-M NAPI for 8169 is enabled. hardware is nx5000 laptop My thanks to the 8169 driver writer(s). I will continue to debug this, and will be happy to try any suggestions for improving performance and/or stability of this NIC. Take it easy, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com