Realtek 8139 ethernet very slow

From: Eliot Stock (bass_at_czss.com)
Date: 05/31/04

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    I just bought a Hush PC with a Realtek RTL-8139 in it and put Fedora Core 2. The
    driver is 8139too and works out of the box but is very slow. It's inconsistent
    - some sites are faster than others, and DNS lookups seem slow. There are
    postings from people with the same symptoms here:

    1.
    http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=940951#post940951

    and here:

    2. http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2004/May/3109.html

    1 Suggests this is power management-related, so I tried stopping the acpid
    daemon - no joy. 2 suggests that upgrading to kernel 2.6.6 might fix it, so I
    got that out of testing and upgraded, but still no joy.

    Realtek's site has some drivers here:

    http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?series=16&Software=True#16Unix%20(Linux)

    but they look old, and none explicitly say they're for 2.6 kernels.

    lspci shows:

    http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?series=16&Software=True#16Unix%20(Linux)

    /etc/modprobe.conf includes:

    alias eth0 8139too

    What to do?

    Cheers,

    Eliot Stock.

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