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

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

Hello.

Francois Romieu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   could you give the patch below some testing ?
> 
> Any post-LLTX-revert 2.6.11-rc2-bk should do.
> 
> Merge of Realtek's code
> - code dedicated to a new phy (spotted by Richard Dawe);
> - C+ register fiddling seems required for both RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_{D/E};
> - apart from being reserved, register at address 0xe2 is named 'IntrMitigate';
> - bump version number.
>   A bunch of people do not use the vanilla kernel module simply because
>   Realtek's driver has a higher revision number. This is not an issue per
>   se but their driver is buggy due to some partial merge of in-kernel code.
[snip]

Applied to 2.6.11-rc3. It seems to work fine. I've passed ~20GB of data 
at 100Mbps full-duplex with no errors (compared MD5 sums on files). My 
data rate test (sftp of Linux kernel source tarball) gave about the same 
data rate as 1.6LK + PHY patch - ~7.1MB/sec.

It works fine setting the speed & duplex using "ethtool -s eth0 autoneg 
off speed <speed> duplex <duplex>".

I haven't tested the VLAN or jumbo(ish) frames. Let me know if you'd 
like me to test those too. Although I'm not sure if I can test jumbo 
frames with the equipment I have.

One more thing:

With 1.6LK + my PHY patch, I see the message "eth0: PHY reset until link 
up" every 5 seconds or so, when there is no Ethernet cable plugged in. 
This is annoying. I think it should only log it once.

I'll repeat my cable removal/insertion tests with 2.2LK later and let 
you know what I find.

Bye, Rich =]

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