From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: "Petri T. Koistinen" <petri.koistinen@iki.fi>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ShuChen <shuchen@realtek.com.tw>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: D-Link DGE-528T (r8159) autonegotation of 1000 Mbps link does not work
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:02:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070226200208.GA5384@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702242214120.1830@qfy-uxvtj8-sro4so00-137.qupc.varg.sv>
Please Cc: the maintainer from the MAINTAINERS file.
Petri T. Koistinen <petri.koistinen@iki.fi> :
[...]
> I just brought two D-Link DGE-528T (uses r8159 driver) network adapters
> to have nice 1 Gbps home network between two computers.
- which kernel ?
- dmesg please ?
[...]
> and when I use this cable I only get 10 Mbps connection when connected
> another D-Link DGE-528T.
Try a straight cable between the two D-Link adapters.
[...]
> Do anyone know if there some known bug in auto-negotiation with
> Realtek 8159 chip? (Or is that just wrong cable?)
>
> Can I force 1000 Mbps link on some other way than giving option to
> insmod? Using /proc or something?
mii-tool or (better) ethtool.
[...]
> What kind of transfer speed you have reached with these cards ? That
> 15 MiB/s is not what I expected.
It smells like fast ethernet. Even my old PII does better than that with
a 8169.
Please send 'mii-tool -vv' and/or ethtool output + vmstat 1 during test.
--
Ueimor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-26 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-25 13:56 Petri T. Koistinen
2007-02-26 20:02 ` Francois Romieu [this message]
2007-02-27 21:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
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