Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:00:56 +0300 | From | "Boris B. Zhmurov" <> | Subject | Re: need some help on a backport of r8169 |
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Hello, Pascal GREGIS.
On 26.02.2007 19:08 you said the following:
> Hello everyone, > > I am experiencing a big fight with a Realtek RTL8168 ethernet card > that I need to use with a 2.6.11.11 kernel. > > Here is my problem : the RTL8168 (which seems to be the PIC-express > version of the RTL8169) isn't recognized by the 2.6.11.11 kernel. So > I tried the r1000 driver supplied by Realtek, which recognizes my > RTL8168 card but doesn't do what I want. In fact, it only supports > ethtool for speed control and always uses autonegotiation to force a > mode, which is also the behaviour of the r8169 driver but doesn't fit > my needs because some of my company's clients use network switches > that do not support autonegotiation. > > I must precise that I previously succeeded to backport the support > for mii-tool in the r8169 driver from the 2.6.20 kernel to the > 2.6.11.11, which allows me to effectively force the speed without > using autonegotiation. Ok, but that was for the RTL8169 card, already > supported in the 2.6.11.11 kernel, now I need to support a RTL8168 > one. > > So I tried a 2.6.20 kernel with this card and I saw that it was > supported by the r8169 driver. So I decided to backport some of this > driver to add the RTL8168 in it for the 2.6.11.11 kernel. I thought > it was easy and just required to add some references (pci id ...) but > sadly it isn't, and my patch results in a kernel panic when I turn > the interface up. > > Could anyone take a look at my patch and tell me what is missing, or > what is wrong?
You, probably, should try to backport this patch: http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.17-rc6/r8169/0005-r8169-sync-with-vendor-s-driver.txt
to your 2.6.11. Francois, please, correct me, if I'm wrong.
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