Hi! I just brought two D-Link DGE-528T (uses r8159 driver) network adapters to have nice 1 Gbps home network between two computers.
I have gigabit crossover cable that is connected like this Pin Connector #1 Connector #2 1 white/orange white/green 2 orange green 3 white/green white/orange 4 blue white/brown 5 white/blue brown 6 green orange 7 white/brown blue 8 brown white/blue (from: http://logout.sh/computers/net/gigabit/) and when I use this cable I only get 10 Mbps connection when connected another D-Link DGE-528T. However if I connect other end of cable to Intel EtherExpress 100 Mbps card, I get 100 Mbps connection auto-negotiated OK. I can however force gigabit link on both D-Link DGE-528T using insmod ./r8169.ko media=0x10 command. And I get about 15 MiB/s transfer speed when testing with netcat and pmr[1] (without NAPI). Which I count as some kind of sucky gigabit connection. Few questions for you: 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? What kind of transfer speed you have reached with these cards? That 15 MiB/s is not what I expected. Thanks! Best regards, Petri Koistinen [1] Test setup: Server: nc -l -p 2000 </dev/zero Client: nc 192.168.1.1 2000 | pmr >/dev/null pmr (ex. pipemeter) is a command line filter that measures bandwidth going through the pipe: http://zakalwe.fi/~shd/foss/pmr/pmr-0.12.tar.bz2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
