Topic: need help to get dual 8169sc onboard lan running

[Confucius]

1 thing is at least needed to make it to work.

depmod -a

Don't know if this solves the problem but it certainly is needed

Harro

[z3n0]

the depmode -a gives back the line..

your sme is update?

my ethernet is DLink DGE-528T

[Confucius]

No wonder....

You are using another type of card. BUT... there seem to be ways to trick your kernel ( < 2.6.10) to work with this card aswell.

http://www.linux.org.za/Lists-Archives/glug-tech-0611/msg00178.html

Haven't been trying these hints myself. All I know is that the r8169.c can't be found on my test system here. The best option seems to do a hex edit of the driver.

download ftp://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/hexedit-1.2.10-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm

install by using "yum localinstall hexedit-1.2.10-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm"

and you have you hexeditor.

Harro

[z3n0]

i follow the guide but the dir /usr/src/linux for edit the r8169.c not exist..

grrrrr

[Confucius]

that's what I had & expected... follow the 2nd section of that guide.. with the HEXEDIT. That might be your solution. And... since I easy misread the guide...
READ CAREFULLY..

[bpivk]

my ethernet is DLink DGE-528T

Do not try and modify the drivers because you'll experience blackouts (freezes without error log)!!!

I will post the bug number for reference as soon as i find it.

Edit: http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2361
Check comment #3.

[z3n0]

i have follow the guida and edit with hexeditor the module..

now the ethernet is recognized!!! the led on switch gigabit is power on at gigabit, BUT my client send files at 12000KB/s !!!

why?

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dmesg |grep eth
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0xe8001000, 00:40:63:c3:8c:17, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 45e1.
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
eth1: RTL8169 at 0xde85e000, 00:15:e9:f0:18:0f, IRQ 10
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth1
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
eth0: RTL8169 at 0xde8e6000, 00:15:e9:f0:18:0f, IRQ 10
r8169: eth0: link up
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: VIA Rhine II at 0xe8001000, 00:40:63:c3:8c:17, IRQ 11.
eth1: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 45e1.
[b]eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1[/b]
*bpivk* sorry, i dont understand..

[Confucius]

@z3n0

I don't have any clue about this card. Can't help you more then I did.

From kernel 2.6.10 you probably can rely on a system that's no longer in need of manual help with this problem. For now we have to rely on what has been figured out already.

As already mentioned by bpivk, this could be resulting in weird behaviour. It's an UNofficial way... Don't use it on a production-server.

@bpivk :

tampering with drivers is NEVER a good thing so I don't recommend to alter all drivers you like to all ppl's here. But when the only option is to do this to make something work... it's a way..
BTW. You were using a 42.0.8 kernel that time while we are already doing 42.0.10 now. Maybe the driver is more stable now ? I hope z3n0 will keep trying it for a few days and report back about blackouts (from the server only   )

[bpivk]

Well i really don't care because i moved that card and i don't want it anywhere near my server.  

BUT... it is a cheap card and i hope that it works for you. You'll find out that it doesn't work soon enough  (had crashes on a 24-48 hour intervals).

[z3n0]

bpivk the card often goes down (google translate )

this card = 20,10€ !!!!!!!!!!!

[bpivk]

Well 20€ is cheap compared to other computer hardware.
But I couldn't find any good cards in my country so i had to buy this card and i had so many problems that i went to a school that had old computers and used one of those nic's (3com) and it performs like a champion.

DGE is now degraded to being a NIC in a MS workstation.  

[z3n0]

existing other cards with chip recognized in all kernel of all distribution?

what buy?

[bpivk]

Well 3com and intel NIC's are great with SME.

[z3n0]

i not found, on the 3com's site, the gigabit cards..

[bpivk]

AFAIK 3com doesn't make the cards anymore. I said that i got an old card from some computers at a school.

Go for the Intel NIC's.