hello, I've got a Toshiba A110-262 which comes with an 10ec:8136 ethernet chip, which turns out to be an Realtek 8101E. Seems no in-kernel driver covers such chips yet.
Realtek offers the GPL'd driver r1000, v1.04 at present, but seems it's not compatible with current 2.6.x kernel at the module param interface. I've pushed Realtek src in-tree after applying the attached patches. The r1000 driver now compiles and WFM fine for .16.28, .17.13, .18-rc6-git3. Hope this helps make them into .18. -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x21426690 kfp:EDFB 0103 A8D8 4180 8AB5 D59E 9771 0F28 2142 6690 "Indeed, it does come with warranty: it *will* fail."
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig.17.11 2006-09-06 22:26:23.000000000 +0200 +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig 2006-09-06 22:24:33.000000000 +0200 @@ -2002,6 +2002,63 @@ If in doubt, say Y. +config R1000 + tristate "Realtek support for 8169S/SB/SC 8168B 8101E" + depends on PCI + ---help--- + Say Y here if you have a Realtek LAN chip of the family below. + + E.g. the 810x may be identified as 'Unknow device 8136' as + of 2.6.18-rc6, with PCI_ID=10ec:8136, on recent (as of Aug 2006) + Toshiba laptops. + + Also, this r1000 may be a better (it's newer at least) choice + for RTL8169 as well than r8169 above. + + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module + will be called r1000. This is recommended. + + == Most relevant excerpt from original README == + Chips supported: + 1. RTL8169S/SB/SC (Gigabit Ethernet with PCI interface) + 2. RTL8168B (Gigabit Ethernet with PCI-Express interface) + 3. RTL8101E (Fast Ethernet with PCI-Express interface) + + Advanced feature: + + - Supports Jumbo Frame + - Hardware Tx/Rx flow control + + Force the link status when insert the driver. + If the user is in the path ~/r1000, the link status can be + forced to one of the 5 modes as following command. + + #insmod ./src/r1000.ko speed=SPEED_MODE duplex=DUPLEX_MODE + autoneg=NWAY_OPTION + + where + SPEED_MODE = 1000 for 1000Mbps + = 100 for 100Mbps + = 10 for 10Mbps + DUPLEX_MODE = 0 for half-duplex + = 1 for full-duplex + NWAY_OPTION = 0 for auto-negotiation off + = 1 for auto-negotiation on + + Force the link status by using ethtool: + + #ethtool -s eth? speed SPEED_MODE duplex DUPLEX_MODE + autoneg NWAY_OPTION + + where + SPEED_MODE = 1000 for 1000Mbps + = 100 for 100Mbps + = 10 for 10Mbps + DUPLEX_MODE = half for half-duplex + = full for full-duplex + NWAY_OPTION = off for auto-negotiation off + = on for auto-negotiation on + config SIS190 tristate "SiS190/SiS191 gigabit ethernet support" depends on PCI
--- ../linux-2.6.17/drivers/net/Makefile.17.11 2006-09-06 22:28:38.000000000 +0200 +++ ../linux-2.6.17/drivers/net/Makefile 2006-09-06 22:29:18.000000000 +0200 @@ -145,6 +145,10 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_3C515) += 3c515.o obj-$(CONFIG_EEXPRESS) += eexpress.o obj-$(CONFIG_EEXPRESS_PRO) += eepro.o +obj-$(CONFIG_R1000) += r1000.o + +r1000-objs := r1000_n.o r1000_ioctl.o + obj-$(CONFIG_8139CP) += 8139cp.o obj-$(CONFIG_8139TOO) += 8139too.o obj-$(CONFIG_ZNET) += znet.o
--- ../modules/r1000_v1.04/src/r1000_n.c 2006-07-07 07:24:09.000000000 +0200 +++ drivers/net/r1000_n.c 2006-09-07 08:55:40.000000000 +0200 @@ -48,9 +48,12 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE (pci, r1000_pci_tbl); MODULE_AUTHOR ("Realtek"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION ("Linux device driver for Realtek Ethernet Controllers"); -MODULE_PARM (speed, "1-" __MODULE_STRING(MAX_UNITS) "i"); -MODULE_PARM (duplex, "1-" __MODULE_STRING(MAX_UNITS) "i"); -MODULE_PARM (autoneg, "1-" __MODULE_STRING(MAX_UNITS) "i"); +MODULE_PARM_DESC (speed, "Speed mode: [10,100,1000] Mbps"); +module_param_array (speed, int, NULL, 0444); +MODULE_PARM_DESC (duplex, "Duplex mode: 0=half, 1=full"); +module_param_array (duplex, int, NULL, 0444); +MODULE_PARM_DESC (autoneg, "Nway option: [0,1]=auto-negotiation [off,on]"); +module_param_array (autoneg, int, NULL, 0444); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
--- a/include/linux/pci_ids.h 2006-09-06 01:10:38.000000000 +0200 +++ b/include/linux/pci_ids.h 2006-09-06 22:14:23.000000000 +0200 @@ -1198,8 +1187,11 @@ #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTERG_5050 0x5050 #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK 0x10ec -#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_REALTEK_8139 0x8139 #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_REALTEK_8136 0x8136 +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_REALTEK_8139 0x8139 +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_REALTEK_8167 0x8167 +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_REALTEK_8168 0x8168 +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_REALTEK_8169 0x8169 #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_XILINX 0x10ee #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_RME_DIGI96 0x3fc0