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Registered: 2016-08-26

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Does my eth0 work in Gigabit Mode? What about this firmware patch?

Hi there,

following up to my other post about zita-njbridge, I notice that using my Fujitso Futro thin client as XDMCP terminal is slow on YouTube videos. How can I check that eth0 is using gigabit mode? (The router/switch on the other end of the line does not have indicators, unfortunately)

Plus, I noticed an error message in dmesg about loading a firmware patch. Maybe these two things interact? Here's the messages:

no@sikander:~$ dmesg |grep eth

r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: RTL8168e/8111e at 0xf8078000, 00:19:99:dd:59:6c, XID 0c200000 IRQ 40

r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: jumbo features [frames: 9200 bytes, tx checksumming: ko]

r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw (-2)

r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: link down

r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: link down

ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready

r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: link up

ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready

eth0: no IPv6 routers present

Any hints are appreciated.

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Re: Does my eth0 work in Gigabit Mode? What about this firmware patch?

It turns out, that I did not look closely enough at what packages SliTaz provides. There is a package for Realtek network interface firmware. This makes a) go away the error message b) wipes out the performance issue I mentioned.

Idea for future development: The SliTaz installer could have a list of devices that require firmware packages and then ask the user to fetch them.