Realtek 8169/8110 in gigabit mode

Has anyone gotten a card with the Realtek 8169 chipset to run in gigabit
mode? i've tried 2 different cards - a LinkSys and an Airlink without
success.

ethtool eth0 shows 100Mbit / full duplex. If I use the command;

ethtool -S eth0 speed 1000 i lose the link and connectivity.

Any thoughts or recommendations would be appreciated.

TIA,

Bill

Am Montag, den 03.07.2006, 16:02 +0000 schrieb William B. Cattell:
> Has anyone gotten a card with the Realtek 8169 chipset to run in gigabit
> mode? i've tried 2 different cards - a LinkSys and an Airlink without
> success.
>
I got a couple of D-LINK DGE-528T Cards with the r8169 chip that work
perfectly with kernel 2.6.14.
Had no pain of configuring, it just worked. Do you have a GByte-Switch?

Greets
Chris

On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:29:52 +0200, Christoph Scheurer wrote:

> Am Montag, den 03.07.2006, 16:02 +0000 schrieb William B. Cattell:
>> Has anyone gotten a card with the Realtek 8169 chipset to run in gigabit
>> mode? i've tried 2 different cards - a LinkSys and an Airlink without
>> success.
>>
> I got a couple of D-LINK DGE-528T Cards with the r8169 chip that work
> perfectly with kernel 2.6.14.
> Had no pain of configuring, it just worked. Do you have a GByte-Switch?
>
> Greets
> Chris

Thanks for the input Chris. Yes, they are going into a Linksys 8 port
gigabit switch. I'm running a 2.6.8 kernel on all 3 boxes and it just
doesn't want to work on one. I have another Linksys card which I believe
is using the sk chipset. I'll give that another try. It's working in a
different system so we'll see what happens.

On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:05:13 +0000, William B. Cattell wrote:

> On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:29:52 +0200, Christoph Scheurer wrote:
>
>> Am Montag, den 03.07.2006, 16:02 +0000 schrieb William B. Cattell:
>>> Has anyone gotten a card with the Realtek 8169 chipset to run in gigabit
>>> mode? i've tried 2 different cards - a LinkSys and an Airlink without
>>> success.
>>>
>> I got a couple of D-LINK DGE-528T Cards with the r8169 chip that work
>> perfectly with kernel 2.6.14.
>> Had no pain of configuring, it just worked. Do you have a GByte-Switch?
>>
>> Greets
>> Chris
>
> Thanks for the input Chris. Yes, they are going into a Linksys 8 port
> gigabit switch. I'm running a 2.6.8 kernel on all 3 boxes and it just
> doesn't want to work on one. I have another Linksys card which I believe
> is using the sk chipset. I'll give that another try. It's working in a
> different system so we'll see what happens.


I swapped the cards around (8169 chipsaet into a box that had an sk
chipset card) and the same thing. turns out it's the *friggin patch
cable*. Yes, I did try a few different patch cables - cat 5e. No dice.
If I move the cable from a box that worked at gigabit speed (acc. to
ethtool) the other box can connect at gigabit but the previously working
box cannot (throttling it down to 100/FD let's it work fine) cannot
connect at gigabit.