Hello: I'm an ex-Ubuntu user and thought I'd add some information which may be useful.
I came across this thread while looking for answers to problems posed by the e1000e driver for my Sun Microsystems Ultra 24 on-board ethernet controller. It's an Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Controller (rev 02), using the latest available driver for Linux (v.3.4.2.1 - 8/26/2018) provided by Intel under Devuan ASCII, 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.130-2 (2018-10-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux. This driver is also used for many other Inter ethernet cards under Linux. [quote=Tj] [i]The solution was always to disable the power-management options via Windows.[/i] [/quote] Indeed ... If only that *were* possible under Linux. At least in *my* case (Devuan ASCII, v.3.4.2.1 e1000e driver and ethtool v.4.19), this has not been possible. It seems that as the driver is loaded as a module, ethtool cannot access the controller EEE settings. ie: [code] # ethtool --show-eee eth0 Cannot get EEE settings: Operation not supported # # ethtool --set-eee eth0 eee off Cannot get EEE settings: Operation not supported # [/code] I have no doubt that the issues this e1000e driver has are originated in the power savings features which *do not* work properly. Unfortunately, my attempts to get answers from Intel and Sourceforge with respect to this were non-productive. See: https://forums.intel.com/s/question/0D50P00004A4QxySAF/disabling-eee-on-82566dm2-gbe-controller?language=en_US and https://sourceforge.net/p/e1000/bugs/635/ Cheers, A. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1785171 Title: Intel I219-V Ethernet Interface on Ubuntu Linux Using e1000e Driver keeps Dropping Internet Connection To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1785171/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
