Gentoo on the 4780 - Page 4

Yup my bad sorry missed that posting.

TrickM, was auto-negotiated to half duplex already (according to dmesg)... but I tried the ethtool thing and:
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ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex half
Cannot get current device settings: Operation not supported
not setting speed
not setting duplex
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occurred. I went ahead and recompiled ethtool just to be sure, but no luck.
-Xaxeon

Well, I'm running 2.6.4 with the latest patches (from the maintainer for the module), and still no luck. btw, the sis-agp patch is in the 2.6.4 kernel tree now. I did find a workaround though, I forced it to 10 Mbit half duplex, that way it never goes under full load and doesn't seem to freeze(at the expense of speed). I just modprobe it with:
/sbin/modprobe r8169 media=0x01
So, I guess I'll have to live with that for now, till the HT problems get worked out. =)
-Xaxeon

Hey everyone,

Just a quick heads up about the ethernet issues being experienced in previous posts. I just installed Slackware v10.0 on my 4780 and built my own custom 2.6.7 kernel w/ SMP. The r8169 is performing beautifully in full duplex 100mbps mode (with my switch). If anyone is still having problems, I recommend upgrading to kernel 2.6.7, as it seems to have fixed all of the networking issues mentioned earlier in this thread.

And thanks to everyone's other useful information in this thread as well.. it saved me from a lot of trial-and-error.

And on a separate note...

Is anyone here running 2.6.x with a 4780 that has their touchpad working? Mine works in 2.4.x, but 2.6.x doesn't see it at all.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

The mouse can't be found anywhere, console or in X. I tried attaching a USB mouse and it didn't work, but I didn't experiment with that much. I haven't tried the PS/2 port.

What's odd is that the touchpad works in 2.4.x, but (after lots of reading), there might be compatibility issues with Alps touchpads and the 2.6.x kernel series. I'm about to patch my kernel now to see if it helps any.

UPDATE

I fixed it! After hours of reading and trial-and-error fun, I finally came across the following information about the psaux implementation for 2.6.x:

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Ivan Popovski has found that the psaux module does not work correctly on devices capable of multiplexing the PS/2 mouse port. You have such a device if dmesg says

i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.

or something like that. Don't be disappointed. By disabling the multiplexing feature of the PS/2 port, my psaux module works again. How?

* If the psmouse is loaded as a module, use the "i8042_nomux=1" parameter when you load that module.
* Most people would have compiled-in the psmouse driver, because the i8042.c also drives the keyboard. In that case, use "i8042.nomux" as a boot parameter.
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I checked my dmesg and found that multiplexing string, so I passed i8042.nomux to the kernel, and voila, the mouse worked.

Hopefully anyone else out there struggling with this issue will find this useful. At first I was thinking SMP might be the culprit, since that was also mentioned as a problem, but that seems to have been fixed in 2.6.7 (or possibly earlier), because my kernel is SMP and I have no problems using the backward compatible psaux device.