Your message dated Wed, 28 May 2008 01:10:52 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#419475: linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7: erroneous behaviour
of Realtek 8139, network practically unusable
has caused the Debian Bug report #419475,
regarding linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7: erroneous behaviour of Realtek 8139, network
practically unusable
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Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7
Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12
Severity: important
After upgrading this machine from sarge to etch, network card started to do
strange things.
Net card is correctly detected and initialized, but it doesn't works as
expected.
I can, for example, remotely connect by ssh to machine. But when I try to scp
something, connection times out.
I can open www.google.com, but not www.yahoo.com (I suppose problem is the size
of data to transfer). Even an apt-get upgrade times out after downloading some
headers.
I have tried to downgrade kernel (vanilla kernel, without debian patches, but
with the same options as 2.6.18-4 debian kernel when possible),
and the problem seems to appear in 2.6.17. 2.6.16.46 works with no problem.
2.6.17 suffers from the same problem than etch's kernel.
I have tried 2.6.18-4-486 too, and the problem persists.
I have passed the following options to kernel, with no success at all:
irqpoll
pci=biosirq
pci=routeirq
acpi=off
I've added the following lines to /etc/sysctl.conf, with no success too (I
found them in an old kernel bug report):
# No longer needed, fixed by lines below
#net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0
# Fix for tcp window scaling issue related to broken Internet routers
proc.sys.net.ipv4.tcp_wmem="4096 16384 131072"
proc.sys.net.ipv4.tcp_rmem="4096 87380 174760"
# Default Debian values for these, still causing problems as of 2.6.18-3
#proc.sys.net.ipv4.tcp_wmem="4096 16384 4194304"
#proc.sys.net.ipv4.tcp_rmem="4096 87380 4194304"
I'm at my very end.
This is the output of lspci for both cards (mainboard internal, and PCI):
01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 201
I/O ports at 8400 [size=256]
Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VM400M/7VT600 Motherboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 193
I/O ports at 8800 [size=256]
Memory at e6001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Mainboard is a Gigabyte 7N400SL, with the latest BIOS installed.
Please, feel free to query any other information needed.
P.S. I have booted with 2.6.16.46-1-k7, because with debian's kernel I cannot
send this report :)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.46-1-k7
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored:
LC_ALL set to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7 depends on:
ii coreutils 5.97-5.3 The GNU core utilities
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.85g tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
-- debconf-show failed
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Version: 2.6.20-1
> I can confirm problems are gone with this kernel version.
> I also attach dmesg-2.6.20
ok thus closing with appropriate version.
--
maks
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