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From: Fred Hebert on 13 Mar 2007 19:57
I am trying to upgrade my home server with a gigabit nic. I tried this
Rosewill RC-400 because I saw someone say that it worked out of the box
with Fedora. It does, but only at 100Mb on my system.

My first thought was that I probably needed to use the driver on the CD,
but I can't seem to get it to compile.

From what I can tell the nic is basically a RealTek RTL1869s card and FC6
lloks like it detected it properly.

Any ideas why I can't get a GB connection. In fact when I connect it to my
Netgear GB switch it doesn't seem to work at all.
From: Moe Trin on 14 Mar 2007 20:23
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.redhat, in article
<Xns98F2C0CFBEA34fhebertfjhconsulting(a)69.28.186.120>, Fred Hebert wrote:

>I am trying to upgrade my home server with a gigabit nic. I tried this
>Rosewill RC-400 because I saw someone say that it worked out of the box
>with Fedora. It does, but only at 100Mb on my system.

Missing some data, but what are you using for cables? Gigabit Ethernet
is pretty picky about the cable setup, even worse than 100BaseT.

>My first thought was that I probably needed to use the driver on the CD,
>but I can't seem to get it to compile.

_Probably_ not, but again - missing details. Fedora - which Fedora? There
are six of them, with 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels. Not compiling on a Red Hat
based system is often caused by the lack of *.devel packages, and possibly
missing kernel headers package.

>From what I can tell the nic is basically a RealTek RTL1869s card and FC6
>lloks like it detected it properly.

Web Results 1 - 6 of about 7 for Linux Rosewill RC-400 Ethernet. (0.46
seconds)

Model RC-400
Chipset RTL8169S-32
Speed 10/100/1000Mbps

OK - that should be the r8169 driver that's been part of the Linux kernel
since December 2002. Looking at the web page, they don't mention a 2.6
kernel, so _maybe_ any driver they have of the CD may not be suitable.

>Any ideas why I can't get a GB connection. In fact when I connect it to my
>Netgear GB switch it doesn't seem to work at all.

Assuming you've set the network for static IP addresses (avoiding the
problems of trying to talk to a DHCP server), look at the output of
/sbin/ifconfig paying attention to the transmit and receive error counts.
Also look at /var/log/messages to see what the kernel is saying about
the card during boot. My first guess would be cabling problems, with
auto-negotiation as a second choice. 'mii-tool' may provide additional
clues.

Old guy
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