Description of problem: RTL8101E performance is unacceptable. How reproducible: was tested on kernel-2.6.18-101.el5 Actual results: did not measure the actual speed, but it _is_ _much_ _slower_ than the PCI 100mbit Ethernet card. Expected results: want to have it working as it should be at 1gbit. :)
Created attachment 313434 [details] lspci output: RTL8101E cut
Created attachment 313437 [details] dmesg output
Anton, this is not possible to get 1Gb because 810x class hardware is only fast ethernet :-). Anyway you can try my latest RHEL-5 kernels with patches for r8169 and send me please here a report. There are at: http://people.redhat.com/ivecera/rhel-5-r8169/ Ivan
(In reply to comment #3) ok, my bad ... :) will try the kernels tomorrow.
Ethernet works perfectly in the kernel from http://people.redhat.com/ivecera/rhel-5-r8169/. Thanks!
Created attachment 314710 [details] Final patch sent to review
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in kernel-2.6.18-115.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html