From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Switact - Thomas Roes Subject: R8101 driver link issue Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:03:16 +0100 Message-ID: <47A37B04.3060909@switact.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.26]:1476 "EHLO smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752138AbYBAURE (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:17:04 -0500 Received: from [10.0.0.19] (hierbenikweer.xs4all.nl [82.95.234.97]) by smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m11K3J5M023992 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 21:03:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from info@switact.nl) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: L.S. I'm using linux primaliry through Novell ZEN as part of it's imaging system. A "standard" problem is arrival of new network cards. Procedures to add new drivers to the boot image are well documented. Recently I got problems with a new motherbord using the Realtek RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller. This card is recognised by the r8169 driver but.... it always gives me "link down". To troubleshoot this issue I installed SLED10SP1 on such a machine, which uses the same kernel as the ZEN imaging environment. So i searched for drivers to compile and came across the r8101-1.006.tar.bz2 driver. -1 To get this driver compiled, I have to edit the source at line 3273: u32 mss = skb_shinfo(skb)->tso_size; replace tso_size -> gso_size (or simply removing the if else endif construction altogether :-) -2 but unfortunately, also this new driver, although it get's loaded, it still reports (ethtool eth0).... current message level : 0x0..033 (51) Link detected : no I hope I'm writing to the right person to help solve this issue This link detection issue seems to trouble realtek drivers for a long time. -- Thomas Roes Switact Kvk: Leiden 28100283