Comment 26 for bug 947723

Could you guys provide some products(brand, type) which is using Asix
chipsets?

I'd like to port the vendor specific driver into upstream if I have a NICs to
test.

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:06 AM, mr_echo <email address hidden> wrote:
> I can confirm this on Ubuntu Server 12.04 running kernel 3.2.0-25
> -generic-pae.  It's surprising that this bug isn't getting more
> attention since the majority of USB NICs seem to have Asix chipsets.
> I'm using Ubuntu Server on an Atom box as a router and unfortunately am
> having to use a USB NIC as the public ethernet interface going to my
> cable modem.  Because of this bug, my throughput is cut down from 40Mbps
> to around 10Mbps.
>
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> Title:
>  ASIX USB-Ethernet driver noticably slow, dropping packets and
>  reporting RX errors
>
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  After updating a natty system to precise beta-1, the asix USB ethernet
>  device began flooding console and kernel log with messages:
>
>  [68246.610332] asix 1-5:1.0: eth1: asix_rx_fixup() Bad RX Length 1416
>
>  ifconfig showed RX errors incrementing as traffic passed through the
>  interface, and throughput dwindled as low as 100Kb/s on a 100Mb
>  network.
>
>  Compiling the vendor's driver seems to remedy this.  It seems there is a history of bugs related to this specific driver since 2.6.36 -- see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16831
>  ---
>  AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
>  ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu1
>  Architecture: i386
>  ArecordDevices:
>   Home directory /home/adam not ours.
>   **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
>   card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
>     Subdevices: 1/1
>     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>  AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D3', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D3p', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
>  CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found.
>  Card0.Amixer.info:
>   Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xfae78000 irq 22'
>     Mixer name : 'Nvidia MCP79/7A HDMI'
>     Components : 'HDA:10ec0662,10250222,00100101 HDA:10de0007,10de0101,00100100'
>     Controls      : 19
>     Simple ctrls  : 9
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
>  HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=766017f1-32ff-4cb5-ae6a-4663fd5c0b13
>  IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>  MachineType: Acer Aspire R1600
>  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>  Package: linux (not installed)
>  ProcEnviron:
>   TERM=xterm
>   LANG=en_US
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  ProcFB:
>
>  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-17-generic root=UUID=3f712443-bb8a-49cc-8a3d-939a13400643 ro quit nosplash loglevel=0 vt.handoff=7
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6
>  PulseSinks:
>   Error: command ['pacmd', 'list-sinks'] failed with exit code 1: Home directory /home/adam not ours.
>   No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
>  PulseSources:
>   Error: command ['pacmd', 'list-sources'] failed with exit code 1: Home directory /home/adam not ours.
>   No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
>  RelatedPackageVersions:
>   linux-restricted-modules-3.2.0-17-generic N/A
>   linux-backports-modules-3.2.0-17-generic  N/A
>   linux-firmware                            1.71
>  RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>  Tags:  precise
>  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic i686
>  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>  UserGroups:
>
>  dmi.bios.date: 06/17/2009
>  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
>  dmi.bios.version: P01-A1
>  dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
>  dmi.board.name: FMCP7A-ION
>  dmi.board.vendor: Acer
>  dmi.chassis.type: 3
>  dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
>  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP01-A1:bd06/17/2009:svnAcer:pnAspireR1600:pvr:rvnAcer:rnFMCP7A-ION:rvr:cvnAcer:ct3:cvr:
>  dmi.product.name: Aspire R1600
>  dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
>
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