[clue-tech] ethtool is a lying sack of snake spittle

[David L. Willson]

It's fixed. I downloaded and compiled the Realtek r8168 driver from the ASUS site, removed the r8169 driver from my system, and it's working correctly. I have to say here that this is the first time that a Realtek module build has ever worked for me, and I have two minor corrections for the instructions, but I don't know where to send them.

The suck part of this 'solution' is that I'm going to have to re-do it every time I update my kernel... yuck.

----- "David L. Willson" <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU> wrote:

> Updates on this problem:
>  - Don't know if I mentioned it, but this problem is on two identical
> brand new systems.
>  - The systems work perfectly with other NICs.
>  - The onboard NIC will link at Gb full-duplex if I leave the cable
> out while the system POSTs.
>  - Unfortunately, they're dropping packets like mad...
> 
> Someone asked for $(/sbin/ifconfig). Here that is:
> 
> padmin at pg-tigris:~$ ifconfig eth0
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 48:5b:39:a9:fc:18  
>           inet addr:10.100.0.37  Bcast:10.100.0.255 
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::4a5b:39ff:fea9:fc18/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:3268162 errors:0 dropped:14006258045 overruns:0
> frame:0
>           TX packets:6265218 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 
>           RX bytes:498385594 (475.2 MB)  TX bytes:9078218893 (8.4 GB)
>           Interrupt:254 Base address:0x6000 
> 
> 
> 
> David L. Willson
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> ----- "novemberico" <novemberico at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Can you paste an /sbin/ifconfig ?
> > 
> > 
> > On 8 July 2010 04:01, Nate Duehr < nate at natetech.com > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Jul 7, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Jim Ockers wrote:
> > 
> > > Does your NIC driver support SIOCGMIIPHY ioctls or just
> SIOCETHTOOL
> > > ioctls?
> > 
> > Yeah, 'cause that's something a normal user of an OS is supposed to
> > know... LOL!
> > 
> > --
> > Nate Duehr
> > nate at natetech.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
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