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Bug 42292 - Please update ethtool to 0.8
Summary: Please update ethtool to 0.8
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2004-02-20 13:06 UTC by Jedi/Sector One
Modified: 2004-03-29 13:47 UTC (History)
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Description Jedi/Sector One 2004-02-20 13:06:11 UTC 
Version 0.8 of ethtool is out for a while. There's a very important change since 0.7 : the TSO can be enabled/disabled.

And without disabling TSO (ethtool -K eth0 tso off), a lot of e1000 NICs are unreliable with a 2.6 kernel.

No need to change the ebuild, just bump the version, it works like a charm.
Comment 1 Paulo Fidalgo 2004-02-27 09:27:20 UTC 
Maybe you mean 1.8 version...
I would like to ask the developers to add the new version(1.8) which came out on July 19, 2003.
Here are the changes: (from NEWS file)
Version 1.8 - July 19, 2003

	* Feature: Support amd8111e register dumps
	* Feature: Support TSO enable/disable
	* Feature: Support 10 gigabit ethernet
	* Feature: Support writing EEPROM data
	* Feature: Output e100 MDI/MDI-x status in register dump
	* Feature: Clean up RealTek (RTL) chip output, support new chips.
	* Feature: More supported e1000 devices.
	* Bug fix: Properly set ecmd.advertising
	* Bug fix: Fix leaks, handle some error conditions better.
Comment 2 Jon Portnoy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-29 13:47:16 UTC 
1.8's in Portage now, courtesy of agriffis.