Switact - Thomas Roes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
[...]
> Recently I got problems with a new motherbord using the Realtek RTL8101E
> PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller.
>
> This card is recognised by the r8169 driver but.... it always gives me
> "link down".
Can you send the output of 'lspci -vvxxx' and the dmesg of a recent kernel ?
It should include a line like this one:
[...]
eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xf8920000, 00:13:8f:ea:b1:5d, XID 38000000 IRQ 221
^^^
[...]
> So i searched for drivers to compile and came across the
> r8101-1.006.tar.bz2 driver.
Ok.
[...]
> -2 but unfortunately, also this new driver, although it get's loaded, it
> still reports (ethtool eth0)....
> current message level : 0x0..033 (51)
> Link detected : no
Can you send the output of mii-diag and try so force a reset with this
driver ?
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Ueimor
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