Phoronix reports:

If you rely on an Intel I219-LM Gigabit Ethernet adapter, you will want to look forward to upgrading your Linux kernel build soon… A fix was committed Thursday after Intel engineers discovered this particular Ethernet chipset had only been running at around 60% of its maximum speed due to a regression introduced back in 2020…

Since the release of Linux 5.8 in mid-2020, this Ethernet adapter had been running at around 60% of its advertised potential due to an e1000e driver regression.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Link to original post https://slashdot.org/story/23/04/22/0554251/intels-i219-lm-gigabit-ethernet-adapter-ran-at-60-maximum-speed-on-linux-since-2020?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed from Teknoids News

Read the original story