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:
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
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 will hopefully go into
2.6.23-rc1. Some people
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-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] )].
I will attach
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
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):
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.
Addition:
Trying to debug
