I would like to turn one of my laptops into a router so installed a PCMCIA Gigabit Ethernet Adapter into my Thinkad X61 and was amazed that it worked immediately when I booted up without me needing to add any drivers...
However it didn't work reliably... Here is some info about the device:-
It didn't seem very efficient and frequently switched off
Here is some info from dmesg:-
Is there anything I can do to improve performance, or could it be faulty?
However it didn't work reliably... Here is some info about the device:-
Code:
re0@pci0:6:0:0:>class=0x020000 card=0x816910ec chip=0x816910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
device = 'RTL8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
It didn't seem very efficient and frequently switched off
Code:
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.270 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1053.871 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1060.188 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=1054.125 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=1060.122 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=636.009 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=2016.903 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=1689.028 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=1021.137 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=1672.745 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=1021.113 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=3186.135 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 time=3186.132 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=64 time=2439.048 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=14 ttl=64 time=2105.685 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=64 time=2045.146 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=16 ttl=64 time=4287.463 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=17 ttl=64 time=8263.021 ms
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
20 packets transmitted, 18 packets received, 10.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.270/2099.897/8263.021/1807.921 ms
Here is some info from dmesg:-
Code:
re0: <RealTek 8169/8169S/8169SB(L)/8110S/8110SB(L) Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x4000-0x40ff mem 0xd4000000-0xd40000ff irq 16 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
re0: Chip rev. 0x18000000
re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
rgephy0: none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master,
re0: Using defaults for TSO: 65518/35/2048
re0: Ethernet address: 00:0a:cd:27:e4:83
re0: netmap queues/slots: TX 1/256, RX 1/256
Is there anything I can do to improve performance, or could it be faulty?