Re: Acer Aspire 1524WLMi and RealTek 8169 - very slow

[Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.gotadsl.co.uk>]

Hello.

Francois Romieu wrote:
> Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.gotadsl.co.uk> :
> [...]
> 
>>I didn't see any crashes or hangs with use_dac enabled (or rather, not 
>>disabled).
> 
> 
> It defaults to 0. Set it to 1 if you dare (once the current issues are
> fixed, ok ? :o) ).

Yeah. ;)

[snip]
 > I'll check if there is something relevant for ethtool on RH bugzilla.
 > It should not segfault.

OK. I will try debugging it using gdb later (probably not today), to see 
where it segfaults.

[snip]
>>Sadly my box won't boot, if I disable ACPI.
> 
> 
> Can you give a look at:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122145%22%22
> 
> Ac*r, laptop, acpi and x64 are making me paranoid.

Sure. It will take me a while to digest all that stuff! I probably won't 
be able to do that for a couple of days. There is a fixed-up ACPI file 
for the Acer Aspire 1523LMi. I probably need to do some work. Earlier 
versions of the 1520 series came with Broadcom GigE.

[snip]
>>From your ethtool patch, it looks like I have a 8110. I did search 
>>their specs for version registers, etc., but I could not see them. Where 
>>did you get your datasheet from for the 8110?
> 
> 
> I got my rtl8169spec-121.pdf from Realtek's website when their search
> engine was still working. Now you'd better use Google.
[snip]

Thanks, I've got a copy now. Googling for that exact filename gives a 
site containing specifications for various network chips.

Thanks for your help!

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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