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From: Antonio Gallo <agx@linux.it>
Subject: Re: r8169, linux kernel 2.6.22.9, broken negotiation
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:01:14 +0200
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Francois Romieu ha scritto:
> Antonio Gallo <agx@linux.it> :
> [...]
>> Should i try the r8168.ko from the realtek web site instead of the kernel 
>> module r8169 ?
> 
> I think that it is fixed by commit 66ec5d4fb1ce6f0bd9df4bc4b758f0916d9f37ab
> in mainline (merged between 2.6.23 and 2.6.24).
> 
> You can either use Realtek's driver or try a recent 2.6.27-rc, optionally
> patched with http://userweb.kernel.org/~romieu/r8169/2.6.27-rc6/
> 

Thanks i've tryed r8168.ko meanwhile, ethtool is perfect but the problem
is the same.

I'll try to check the commit/patches you mentioned.

Thank you so much for answering, Antonio Gallo