[PATCH] SiS900/RTL8201
From: Grischa Jacobs
Date: Mon Mar 08 2004 - 15:41:45 EST
Hi
I have a MSI MS-6701 with an onboard SiS900 network card. Using the
linux kernel 2.4.23 and 2.6.[0-3] I experienced very low transfer rates
of 200-300Kb/s. Looking at the boot messages, I found a number of
entries about unknown PHY tranceivers at several addresses. Only at one
address a Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver was found. By default the last
transceiver, not the known one, was selected.
All but the recognised transceiver had a fault bit set. So I added two
lines to take that bit into account. This allowed the known transceiver
to be selected and resulted in increased transfer rates up to the
expected 10-11Mb/s.
I don't have access to other SiS900 nics nor appropriate documentation
to check my modifications. So I'd be glad if people with such cards
could check or anybody with experience with nic drivers could comment on
this patch.
Grischa Jacobs
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