hi, I have big troubles to get my r8169 based gigabit ethernet cards to work with my fedora core 1 machines. The card is well recognised and configured, but the transfer rates are a catastrophy, the moreover with NFS transfers. I read many messages about this over various mailing lists, it seems due to a buffer trouble in the driver code (see the 2.4.26 kernel changelog : [netdrvr r8169] fix TX descriptor overflow). As I tryed to make myself a new kernel from scratch with a 2.4.26 sources from kernel.org, I can testimony that the issue seems corrected with this kernel ... no more crappy transfer rates that seems made through a 10 years old modem. I guess I'm not the one having such troubles since the r8169 based cards seem to spread rapidly amoung the new motherboard with gigabit ethernet included, so I would be a shame not to change the code in the fedora kernel sources and not release a new kernel that incorporate the fix. anyone ? cordialy
