Jens Stroebel wrote:
> Francois Romieu wrote:
>> Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
>> [...]
>>> The patch will not apply directly against 2.6.21.5. Is it an option for
>>> you to try 2.6.22-rc6 or are you stuck with 2.6.21.5 ?
>> If you feel adv
Francois Romieu wrote:
> Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
> [...]
>> The patch will not apply directly against 2.6.21.5. Is it an option for
>> you to try 2.6.22-rc6 or are you stuck with 2.6.21.5 ?
>
> If you feel adventurous, you will find a compile-tested-only patchkit for
> 2.6.21.5 here:
Jens Stroebel wrote:
> Francois Romieu wrote:
>> [...]
>> It may help and/or accelerate things if you can narrow the fix(es) in
>> the current r8169 serie.
> Instead, I built 2.6.21.5+[a patch I snatched from a mail communication
> you had on 2007-06-20
> (Msg-I
Francois Romieu wrote:
> Jens Stroebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
> [...]
>> Would it
>> be possible to apply the single patch to 2.6.21.5 and get a working
>> driver?
> Mantra: mainline first, stable later.
hm .. OK.
> In the next future, most of this patchset
Hello.
The hardware involved:
Motherboard: Asus P5B
lspci:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
controller (rev 01)
First the non-working scenario (2.6.21.5, 2.6.22rc6 unpatched):
During the use of networ
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 03:38:57PM +0100, Jens Stroebel wrote:
> During the use of network connections, we experience "network transfer
> stops" during which a transfer seems to stall completely for many
> seconds, after which the transfer runs as if nothing happened.
>
Hello.
I am trying to get a RTL8111 (RealTek ethernet controller) running w.
the r8169 kernel module. I am using kernel 2.6.19.2 on a
LinuxFromScratch system; the motherboard on which said RTL8111 sits is
an Asus P5B.
lspci says (regarding the ethernet chip):
03:0
