RE: RTL8139 Full Duplex with a non-modular kernel

From: Gerard Sharpe (gerards_at_hunterlink.net.au)
Date: 06/29/04

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    I had no joy with the append option, I did however have a little success
    with ethtool -

    ------------------------
    kryten:~# ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off

    kryten:~# reboot

    kryten:~# grep eth0 /var/log/dmesg
    eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe0800000, 00:e0:4c:e9:5b:db, IRQ 11
    eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
    eth0: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0000

    kryten:~# ethtool eth0
    Settings for eth0:

            Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
            Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                    100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
            Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
            Speed: 100Mb/s
            Duplex: Full
            Port: MII
            PHYAD: 32
            Transceiver: internal
            Auto-negotiation: off
            Supports Wake-on: pumbg
            Wake-on: d
    ------------------------

    I thought it strange that once rebooted the card was picked up as 10MB HD
    but ethtool shows 100MB FD? I'm pretty sure the card is running at 100MB as
    the switch shows the link at 100MB (is only a cheapo switch, does not show
    about the duplex setting) but I'm curious about the duplex setup. FTP is
    only transferring at 500KB/s so something is definiately screwy.

    Also is I use the command "ethtool -s eth0 speed 10 duplex half autoneg off"
    the 100MB light on the switch does go off leading me to believe the switch
    is reporting the speed correctly.

    I decided to test my other linux box which is setup with a modular kernal
    with the identical network card and found it is transfering at 5MB/s.. I'm
    am now confused...

    R
    GS

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    On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz
    Sent: Tuesday, 29 June 2004 9:26 AM
    To: For users of Fedora Core releases
    Subject: Re: RTL8139 Full Duplex with a non-modular kernel

    Am Di, den 29.06.2004 schrieb Gerard Sharpe um 1:18:

    > Thanks for the reply, just one small problem.. I'm using lilo as my
    > boot loader :)

    lilo uses the append syntax, so my given suggestion would be:

    append="8139too=0x30"

    Don't trust me too much :) I am not very sure about the value passed to the
    8139too driver. Its worth a trial, you can't break things with it.

    Alexander

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