L.S.
I'm using linux primaliry through Novell ZEN as part of it's imaging
system. A "standard" problem is arrival of new network cards. Procedures
to add new drivers to the boot image are well documented.
Recently I got problems with a new motherbord using the Realtek RTL8101E
PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller.
This card is recognised by the r8169 driver but.... it always gives me
"link down".
To troubleshoot this issue I installed SLED10SP1 on such a machine,
which uses the same kernel as the ZEN imaging environment.
So i searched for drivers to compile and came across the
r8101-1.006.tar.bz2 driver.
-1 To get this driver compiled, I have to edit the source at line 3273:
u32 mss = skb_shinfo(skb)->tso_size;
replace
tso_size -> gso_size (or simply removing the if else endif construction
altogether :-)
-2 but unfortunately, also this new driver, although it get's loaded, it
still reports (ethtool eth0)....
current message level : 0x0..033 (51)
Link detected : no
I hope I'm writing to the right person to help solve this issue
This link detection issue seems to trouble realtek drivers for a long time.
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Thomas Roes
Switact
Kvk: Leiden 28100283
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