[realtek] 8139C problems

[Andreas Tretow]

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 08:30, j.beyer@web.de wrote:
> Andreas Tretow <tretow@snafu.de> schrieb am 18.09.02 22:53:26:
>  
> > ifconfig only reports receiving errors on the remote machine (running
> > rtl8139).
> 
> is it possible that you have a PCI bandwith problem? What kind of
> machines are involed? slow ones?

Mea culpa maxima. All problems solved, or so it seems.

As it turns out, I seem to have had a duplex mismatch due to
misconfigured NICs. I apologize for any inconvenience I might have
caused.

I have upgraded all machines to kernel 2.4.20-pre7 (applied Adrian
Bunk's patch to drivers/video/Config.in, so that 'make xconfig' works)
and reenabled autonegotiation on the NICs. Rtl8139.c worked unreliably
with 2.4.18-3 (RH7.3 stock kernel; it did transfer but the interface
stopped working reproduceably under heavy load after a couple of hundred
megs transferred without giving any messages,) and not at all with
2.4.20-pre7 (it loads and doesn't give any errors in /var/log/messages ,
but the interface does not establish a connection) for me.

Thanks Joerg for taking the time.

Andreas