From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030619AbXBZUDL (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:03:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030595AbXBZUDL (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:03:11 -0500 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:50060 "EHLO fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030510AbXBZUDJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:03:09 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:02:08 +0100 From: Francois Romieu To: "Petri T. Koistinen" Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ShuChen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: D-Link DGE-528T (r8159) autonegotation of 1000 Mbps link does not work Message-ID: <20070226200208.GA5384@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Please Cc: the maintainer from the MAINTAINERS file. Petri T. Koistinen : [...] > 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