netdev - Re: The card speed limited to 100 Mb/s

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Message-ID: <198814f6-ddc8-0be4-4df2-d255a133971a@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 5 Aug 2020 08:16:43 +0200
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     jsbien@...uw.edu.pl
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The card speed limited to 100 Mb/s

On 04.08.2020 18:17, Janusz S. Bień wrote:
> 
> I apologize for a false alarm - the cable had to be replaced.
> 
It wouldn't have been a question for the kernel community anyway
because it's about a out-of-tree vendor driver.
And the 150MB/s - 300MB/s obviously refer to WiFi.


> Regards
> 
> Janusz
> 
> On Tue, Aug 04 2020 at 11:46 +02, Janusz S. Bień wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I follow the instruction from the README.Debian file in
>> r8168-dkms_8.048.03-1_all.deb.
>>
>> This is a HP laptop connected to a 150 Mb/s. The HP service claims the
>> card should be working with the speed up to 300 Mb/s. Both tests and
>> Setting show the speed of 100 Mb/s only. For videoconferences the
>> difference can be quite essential.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Janusz
>>
>> root@...ian:~# lshw -class network -short
>> H/W path               Device     Class          Description
>> ============================================================
>> /0/100/2.2/0           enp2s0     network        RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
>> /0/100/2.4/0                      network        Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>> /2                     docker0    network        Ethernet interface
>> root@...ian:~# ethtool -i enp2s0 
>> driver: r8168
>> version: 8.046.00-NAPI
>> firmware-version: 
>> expansion-rom-version: 
>> bus-info: 0000:02:00.0
>> supports-statistics: yes
>> supports-test: no
>> supports-eeprom-access: no
>> supports-register-dump: yes
>> supports-priv-flags: no
>