Hi Francois, and thanks again for the quick replies.
> > Does this patchset work against kernel 2.6.18, or, better yet, is there a > > separate source package that lets me build the current driver on this > > older kernel? > > Hardly: the r8169 driver has been modified by ~40 patches from 2.6.18 to > now. > > There is an ugly hack^W^W quick backport for 2.6.18 at: > http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/backport/r8169/20070418-00 > > It compiles but I do not know if it works and I strongly suggest to use > a more recent kernel package anyway. I'll do my best - a kernel update is certainly not possible on this particular machine, simply because it is a user workstation that is actually being used ;) Also, mii-tool doesn't appear to be included anywhere in this (SuSE 10.2 x64) installation, so I'll have to look into building this from source. Meanwhile, a new bit of information that maybe gives a hint: ethtool -d shows reg 0x6C "PHY status" changes from 0x6b (erroneous 100TX link) to 0x73 (correct 1000TX link). What ethtool dumps aren't MII registers, so I doubt that this tells us anything useful, but here it is anyway. Bonne nuit! Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
