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Message-ID: <20080716211030.GA27803@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:10:30 +0200 From: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com> To: Jon Nelson <jnelson@...poni.net> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: request: via velocity and tg3 help Jon Nelson <jnelson@...poni.net> : > I have a pair (each) of VIA Velocity and Broadcom (Altima) gig-e NICs. > They've never worked worth a damn. Only with 2.6.25.5 (and later) does > the VIA not kernel oops on boot, but neither one of them works > correctly, and things go downhill even faster when jumbo frames get > involved. They are both OK in 100-mbit, but in gig-e nearly useless. I > am willing to personally ship one or both cards to parties interested > in making them work better. I also have a single RTL8169-based card > which works OK but not great, and I may be willing to do the same > there. The only gig-e NICs I have are NVidia (Marvell) MCP55 which, at > least as of 2.6.25.9, work great - I'm easily able to sustain 112MB/s > with 1500byte frames and a non-jumbo-frame capable Intel NIC. Can you redirect to netdev@...r.kernel.org and describe more specifically in what way the r8169 does not match your expectations ? Memory allocation failures with jumbo frames ? -- Ueimor -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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