• If you want to support S5 WOL, you have to find

  EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DRTL8152_S5_WOL

  in the Makefile. Then, remove the first character '#", if it exists.

• For Fedora, you may have to run the following command after installing the
  driver.

  dracut -f

• For Ubuntu, you may have to run the following command after installing the
  driver.

  sudo depmod -a

  sudo update-initramfs -u

• Example of setting speed

  2.5G before kernel v4.10

  ethtool -s eth0 autoneg on advertise 0x802f

  2.5G for kernel v4.10 and later

  ethtool -s eth0 autoneg on advertise 0x80000000002f

  ethtool -s eth0 autoneg on advertise 0x002f (1G)

  ethtool -s eth0 autoneg on advertise 0x000f (100M full)

  ethtool -s eth0 autoneg on advertise 0x0003 (10M full)

• Disable center tap short

  make CONFIG_CTAP_SHORT=OFF modules

• Ring parameter

  Show Ring parameter

  ethtool -g eth0

  Changes the number of ring entries for the Rx ring.

  ethtool -G eth0 rx 100

• Tunable parameters

  Get the current rx copybreak value in bytes.

  ethtool --get-tunable eth0 rx-copybreak

  Set the rx copybreak value in bytes.

  ethtool --set-tunable eth0 rx-copybreak 256

• Flow control

  Queries the specified Ethernet device for pause parameter information.

  ethtool -a eth0

  Changes the pause parameters of the specified Ethernet device.

  ethtool -A eth0 rx off tx off (Disable flow control)

  ethtool -A eth0 rx on tx off (Enable flow control)

from r8152.