netdev - Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

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Message-Id: <200705012314.11191.peter.missel@onlinehome.de>
Date:	Tue, 1 May 2007 23:14:10 +0200
From:	Peter Missel <peter.missel@...inehome.de>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8169 2.2LK: Low link speed after suspend

> > Unfortunately the driver that comes with 2.6.18 doesn't appear to support
> >
> > mii-tool. I get this message:
> > >Mars:~ # mii-tool -w eth2
> > >SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth2' failed: Operation not supported
>
> Are you sure that your system is kept up-to-date ?

Yes it is, I even checked manually tonight before posting:

>Mars:~ # uname -a
>Linux Mars 2.6.18.8-0.1-default #1 SMP Fri Mar 2 13:51:59 UTC 2007 x86_64 
>x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/r8169.c as from today's SuSE "kernel source" 
package is attached.

If you could produce me a patch to bring this to current, I'd be very pleased 
to try it out.

> ... for the 8168/8111B, it is strongly suggested to use 2.6.21 +
> http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20070430-2.6.21-r8169-test.pa
>tch

Thanks, I'll tell our OS compliance testers that.

Good night.
Peter

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