Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-07-07 Thread Peter Missel
Hi again Francois! No NFS but networking or no networking at all ? Networking in itself was fine and stable, and with seemingly much better performance in large file transfers as well. NFS appeared to be working too, problem was just that workstation and server couldn't agree on file

Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-07-07 Thread Peter Missel
Hi again Francois! 2.6.22-rc7 does suspend-to-disk again ... and the bad news is, the reported problem (link speed 100 not 1000 after resume from suspend-to-disk) is still there when using 2.6.22-rc7 with your -rc6 driver patch. The symptoms are the same as in 2.6.18 with unpatched r8169.

Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-07-03 Thread Peter Missel
Hi Francois! Peter Missel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Unfortunately I couldn't get NFS to work with the updated kernel, so I had to revert to the original from SuSE 10.2. No NFS but networking or no networking at all ? Networking in itself was fine and stable, and with seemingly much better

Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-07-02 Thread Jens Stroebel
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:

Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-07-02 Thread Jens Stroebel
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 for

Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-07-02 Thread Francois Romieu
Peter Missel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] Unfortunately I couldn't get NFS to work with the updated kernel, so I had to revert to the original from SuSE 10.2. No NFS but networking or no networking at all ? -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body

Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-07-01 Thread Peter Missel
Bonjour Francois! If you feel adventurous, you will find a compile-tested-only patchkit for 2.6.21.5 here: http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.21.5 or: http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20060630-2.6.21.5-r8169-test. patch The content should be almost the same as the

Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-07-01 Thread Francois Romieu
Peter Missel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] The patch applies without failure; I'm getting a warning during build, CC [M] drivers/net/r8169.o drivers/net/r8169.c: In function ‘rtl8169_start_xmit’: drivers/net/r8169.c:2341: warning: ‘txd’ may be used uninitialized in this function It's known

Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-06-30 Thread Peter Missel
Hello Francois! I have finally gotten round to updating the kernel on this workstation. It is now on 2.6.21.5 as downloaded from www.kernel.org, built for AMD64. Unfortunately, the problem is not gone. After suspend-to-disk and resume, link speed is 100. Unplugging and replugging the cable

Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-06-30 Thread Francois Romieu
Peter Missel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] It is now on 2.6.21.5 as downloaded from www.kernel.org, built for AMD64. Unfortunately, the problem is not gone. After suspend-to-disk and resume, link speed is 100. Unplugging and replugging the cable does not help. Unloading and reloading the

Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-06-30 Thread Francois Romieu
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:

Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-05-01 Thread Peter Missel
Hi Francois! Sorry, returning to this issue took me longer than anticipated before I could return to the issue. Hardly: the r8169 driver has been modified by ~40 patches from 2.6.18 to now. There is an ugly hack^W^W quick backport for 2.6.18 at:

Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-05-01 Thread Francois Romieu
Peter Missel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] Sorry, returning to this issue took me longer than anticipated before I could return to the issue. No problem, it is in my bugs store. [...] Unfortunately the driver that comes with 2.6.18 doesn't appear to support mii-tool. I get this message:

Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-04-17 Thread Peter Missel
Hello Francois! Thanks for the quick reply. Now after resume, the link is working OK but doesn't come back up to normal gigabit operation. ifdown, unloading and reloading the r8169 module, and then ifup again fixes it. Can you try 2.6.21-rc7 + (either): -

Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-04-17 Thread Francois Romieu
Peter Missel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] Does this patchset work against kernel 2.6.18, or, better yet, is there a separate source package that lets me build the current driver on this older kernel? Hardly: the r8169 driver has been modified by ~40 patches from 2.6.18 to now. There is an ugly

Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-04-17 Thread Peter Missel
Hi Francois, and thanks again for the quick replies. Does this patchset work against kernel 2.6.18, or, better yet, is there a separate source package that lets me build the current driver on this older kernel? Hardly: the r8169 driver has been modified by ~40 patches from 2.6.18 to

r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-04-16 Thread Peter Missel
Greetings! I have a SuSE 10.2 64-bit installation that uses a Realtek PCI GbE chip in D-Link disguise (lspci see below). While this works rather well after a normal boot sequence, I don't get a gigabit link after resume from standby or suspend-to-disk. Entering standby, the link speed goes

Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

2007-04-16 Thread Francois Romieu
Peter Missel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] Entering standby, the link speed goes down to 100 Mb as expected; the link stays up during standby/suspend (for WOL purposes apparently). Yes. Now after resume, the link is working OK but doesn't come back up to normal gigabit operation. ifdown,