[Debian-eeepc-devel] atl1e eee pc 901 1969:1026 ethernet controller gigabit or just fast ethernet

[Jelle de Jong]

Dear Xiong and Jie,

There has been a discussion in the debian eeepc community about the
atl1e driver used for the Asus Eee PC 901 netbooks.

The device is identified as being a gigabit Ethernet controller, but the
ethtool does not say the device is capable of gigabit. I investigated
the windows driver that says it is a gigabit device but the max is
100MFD so not actually not a gigabit device. Do you now what is going on
here?

If the device is not gigabit, could you please post a bug report against
the lspci (pciutils) project that the description of the device should
change is something less confusing. The atl1e kernel module also says it
is a Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver but if the device is 100M
could this description also change?

Thanks in advance for any information you could provide about this.

Best regards,

Jelle de Jong


[lspci output]
04:00.0 0200: 1969:1026 (rev b0)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit
Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)

[ethtool output]
ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
	Supported ports: [ TP ]
	Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
	                        100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
	Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
	Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
	                        100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
	Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
	Speed: 100Mb/s
	Duplex: Full
	Port: Twisted Pair
	PHYAD: 0
	Transceiver: internal
	Auto-negotiation: on
	Supports Wake-on: pg
	Wake-on: d
	Current message level: 0x00000000 (0)
	Link detected: yes

ethtool --change eth0 speed 1000

[dmesg output]
34748.148705] ATL1E 0000:04:00.0: ATL1E: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps
Full Duplex>

[windows driver l1e51x86.inf]
Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller
100MFD

[modinfo output]
/lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e.ko
description:    Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver