Re: forcedeth ethernet driver & Low power state

From: Denys Vlasenko
Date: Sun Nov 25 2007 - 20:16:58 EST


On Sunday 25 November 2007 10:59, Jeroen wrote:
> On Nov 25, 2007 7:36 PM, Robert Hancock <hancockr@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Are you sure forcedeth even supports that feature? I haven't seen any
> > code for it, and certainly it should never be enabled by default..
>
> The windows driver does. I have to disable it because otherwise I have
> lot's of connection speed troubles. This is also what i see when I use a
> linux distro on the server unfortunately I can't disable it.

You need to prepare more extensive bug report, for starters.
What are "connection speed troubles"? Which kernel version?
Do you see any "interesting" messages in kernel log?
lspci output? ethtool output? etc...
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