Re: Realtek 8139 ethernet very slow

[sangu <sangu hellocity net>]

$mii-tool -A 100baseTx-FD eth0 
or 
$mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth0

Please use mii-tool.

2004-05-31 (ì) 17:39 +0100ì, Eliot Stock ìêë:
> I just bought a Hush PC with a Realtek RTL-8139 in it and put Fedora Core 2. The
> driver is 8139too and works out of the box but is very slow. It's inconsistent
> - some sites are faster than others, and DNS lookups seem slow. There are
> postings from people with the same symptoms here:
> 
> 1.
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=940951#post940951
> 
> and here:
> 
> 2. http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2004/May/3109.html
> 
> 1 Suggests this is power management-related, so I tried stopping the acpid
> daemon - no joy. 2 suggests that upgrading to kernel 2.6.6 might fix it, so I
> got that out of testing and upgraded, but still no joy.
> 
> Realtek's site has some drivers here:
> 
> http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?series=16&Software=True#16Unix%20(Linux)
> 
> but they look old, and none explicitly say they're for 2.6 kernels.
> 
> lspci shows:
> 
> http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?series=16&Software=True#16Unix%20(Linux)
> 
> /etc/modprobe.conf includes:
> 
> alias eth0 8139too
> 
> What to do?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Eliot Stock.
> 
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