Hello, Pascal GREGIS. On 26.02.2007 19:08 you said the following:
Hello everyone, I am experiencing a big fight with a Realtek RTL8168 ethernet card that I need to use with a 2.6.11.11 kernel. Here is my problem : the RTL8168 (which seems to be the PIC-express version of the RTL8169) isn't recognized by the 2.6.11.11 kernel. So I tried the r1000 driver supplied by Realtek, which recognizes my RTL8168 card but doesn't do what I want. In fact, it only supports ethtool for speed control and always uses autonegotiation to force a mode, which is also the behaviour of the r8169 driver but doesn't fit my needs because some of my company's clients use network switches that do not support autonegotiation. I must precise that I previously succeeded to backport the support for mii-tool in the r8169 driver from the 2.6.20 kernel to the 2.6.11.11, which allows me to effectively force the speed without using autonegotiation. Ok, but that was for the RTL8169 card, already supported in the 2.6.11.11 kernel, now I need to support a RTL8168 one. So I tried a 2.6.20 kernel with this card and I saw that it was supported by the r8169 driver. So I decided to backport some of this driver to add the RTL8168 in it for the 2.6.11.11 kernel. I thought it was easy and just required to add some references (pci id ...) but sadly it isn't, and my patch results in a kernel panic when I turn the interface up. Could anyone take a look at my patch and tell me what is missing, or what is wrong?
You, probably, should try to backport this patch: http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.17-rc6/r8169/0005-r8169-sync-with-vendor-s-driver.txt to your 2.6.11. Francois, please, correct me, if I'm wrong. -- boris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
