Bug#726142: Info received (Bug#726142: Realtek NIC (r8169 driver) won't work at gigabit speed, must be forced to 100MB)

2013-10-13 Thread Shawn Heisey
I left out the answer to one of your questions. Yes, the firmware-realtek package is installed. It is version 0.28+squeeze1. During my temporary 3.2 backports kernel experiment, I also upgraded all the firmware packages to the matching version from backports. This may be indirectly significant

Bug#726142: Info received (Bug#726142: Realtek NIC (r8169 driver) won't work at gigabit speed, must be forced to 100MB)

2013-10-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 00:20 -0600, Shawn Heisey wrote: I left out the answer to one of your questions. Yes, the firmware-realtek package is installed. It is version 0.28+squeeze1. During my temporary 3.2 backports kernel experiment, I also upgraded all the firmware packages to the matching

Bug#726142: Info received (Bug#726142: Realtek NIC (r8169 driver) won't work at gigabit speed, must be forced to 100MB)

2013-10-13 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 10/13/2013 11:42 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: - There is no firmware patch for your LAN-on-motherboard chip (RTL8168B). - There is a firmware patch for the chip on the PCIe card (RTL8168D), but this was never included in the driver in Debian kernels (except in some experimental versions).

Bug#726142: Info received (Bug#726142: Realtek NIC (r8169 driver) won't work at gigabit speed, must be forced to 100MB)

2013-10-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 13:00 -0600, Shawn Heisey wrote: On 10/13/2013 11:42 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: - There is no firmware patch for your LAN-on-motherboard chip (RTL8168B). - There is a firmware patch for the chip on the PCIe card (RTL8168D), but this was never included in the driver

Bug#726142: Realtek NIC (r8169 driver) won't work at gigabit speed, must be forced to 100MB

2013-10-12 Thread Shawn Heisey
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-48squeeze4 Severity: important This is a continuation of archived bug number 596390. The problem has never been solved. I have a workaround that I consider unsatisfactory. With everything set to auto-negotiate, and starting from a powered off system, the NIC

Bug#726142: Realtek NIC (r8169 driver) won't work at gigabit speed, must be forced to 100MB

2013-10-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: reassign -1 src:linux 3.2.46-1+deb7u1 Control: found -1 linux-2.6/2.6.32-48squeeze4 On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 13:27 -0600, Shawn Heisey wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-48squeeze4 Severity: important This is a continuation of archived bug number 596390. The problem has never

Bug#726142: Realtek NIC (r8169 driver) won't work at gigabit speed, must be forced to 100MB

2013-10-12 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 10/12/2013 8:52 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: In this original broken configuration, were there any ethtool settings in /etc/network/interfaces ? Is the firmware-realtek package installed? Can you provide the boot log messages from r8169 (grep r8169/var/log/dmesg) ? When I first set up