netdev - Re: Kernel driver r8169 not working for Realtek 8111E onboard network card

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Message-ID: <20111024211001.GA16830@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:10:01 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Adrian George Sav <adi_sav@...oo.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel driver r8169 not working for Realtek 8111E onboard network card

Adrian George Sav <adi_sav@...oo.com> :
> I don't know what you mean by "current -rc", the release candidate version
> of the kernel or maybe of the driver ?

Recent 3.1-rc kernel. You can go with 3.1 now.

[...]
> Trying to solve this, I installed the latest version of ubuntu, because I
> saw it has a new kernel, 3.0.0.12, but no improvement.

See below.

[...]
> [    0.000000] Linux version 3.0.0-12-generic (buildd@...nadsky) (gcc version 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) ) #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011 (Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4)
[...]
> [    1.893490] r8169 0000:07:00.0: eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xf802e000, f4:6d:04:40:36:6f, XID 0c900800 IRQ 48
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If it was recent enough, the kernel would say "RTL8168evl/8111evl".

If you want to use jumbo frames, you will have to use David Miller's -next
branch or wait for 3.1-rc1.

-- 
Ueimor
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