Bug#635912: More Details for driver problem
Hello,
because this bug seems to have some deep problems i contacted the support of Realtek.
In the time between i got help from Mr. Cheng from Realtek.
The problem is not solved up to now, but i will post what we have found out so far:
RTL8169 series are PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller.
The r8168 driver is for PCI-E products, not PCI products!
One assumption was that there is a problem with the CPU power saving.
So I disabled cool'n quiet in the BIOS and obviously it makes an effect!
I could perform ping to my router without packet loss, but contact to the
IMAP-Server fails.
This seems to be the right way to come closer to the problem.
The question is why the frequency stepping of the cpu has effect to the ethernet
problem?
All my tests where made with the newest driver version 6.015.00 for RTL8169.
Another problem is that Mr. Cheng requested the driver informations:
root@PC# ethtool -i eth2
driver: r8169
version: 2.3LK-NAPI
firmware-version:
bus-info: 0000:02:07.0
Mr. Cheng writes to me that it is the inbox driver version, not the realtek driver
version.
Can anybody say what the "inbox driver" is?
lsmod shows to me that the r8169 driver is loaded - so i can't understand this?
I will made some further tests now with cool'n quiet disabled.
Some ideas how i can debug the problem in detail would be helpful.
Regards
Karsten
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