Downloaded and compiled the r8168 driver from the Realtek website. Problem appears to be solved. One other thing, off Asix's website the driver there for the ax88179 has two extra module parameters for bulk transfers, one for buffer size the other for timing. When I was playing around I did notice lowering the buffer size impacted on throughput a bit, for the worst but it also apparently allows to increase the buffer size beyond the linux xhci default too. I think it might have the first alignment patch Freddy posted to the mailing list applied also. Regards, Will Trives On Tuesday 04 February 2014 18:02:05 renevant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Bought a NEC/Renesas pD7020201 based pcie card today. > > > > Ok so now I have a really strange problem if I load the r8169 realtek > ethernet module before xhci_hcd the Renesas controller gets a timeout on > initialization error. > > If I load the xhci_hcd module before the r8169 module then my onboard > ethernet doesn't work. > > wow. Must be some kind of problem using that pcie slot on this motherboard. > > Regards, > > Will Trives > > On Monday 03 February 2014 23:29:37 renevant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > One last thing. > > > > > > With the VL800, the thing that crashed the system was traffic being > > transmitted to a client wirelessly over a VPN with an MTU of 1300 I'm not > > sure if it was ip fragments or something causing the issue or what but > > everything else was pretty much ok in the end except for this, I could > > easily crash the whole system within minutes doing this. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Will Trives > > > > On Monday 03 February 2014 23:19:09 renevant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Hello guys, > > > > > > At this point it just looks like I have 2 problems: > > > > > > 1> The AX88179 won't initialize and operate properly when connected via > > > the > > > Asmedia 1042 (at least on my ASUS AMD 990FX based system) this appears > > > to > > > go back to at least kernel version 3.11.0 this issue. Perhaps this is > > > BIOS version related. This is an obvious issue being experienced even by > > > David and others who have reported it on the list. > > > > > > 2> The VIA VL800 is currently problematic under Linux with my system. > > > It's > > > not just an issue with the XHCI driver in Linux as VFIO also can't > > > handle > > > it and throws up a bunch of page faults just booting before the XHCI > > > module > > > is ever loaded, whereas the Asmedia 1042 can be passed through to guests > > > without this issue. > > > > > > > > > Sorry if I went off on the wrong tangents, I plan on grabbing a NEC > > > based > > > controller. > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Will Trives -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
