Kenneth Benson wrote:
Hmmmm....are you set for auto-negotiate? Some of the switches I work
with
(3Coms believe it or not) don't auto-negotiate well at the higher
speed.
Beyond that I can't think of anything off the top of my head.
I set for 10 or 100 Mb and it works OK - with auto-negotiate enabled or disabled. If the switch is set for 1000 Mb, auto-negotate is enabled with no option to disable.
-- FYI: I have tried using another distro (SuSE) and I have not found any of the numerous networking problems that occur in Fedora. I think they are all using the same drivers so it must be the code that calls the drivers...
Joe
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:43:18PM -0700, Joe Robertson wrote:
-- FYI: I have tried using another distro (SuSE) and I have not found any of the numerous networking problems that occur in Fedora. I think they are all using the same drivers so it must be the code that calls the drivers...
From some of the bugs I've looked at and fixed I suspect its the way they
are called that is differing. There are two general problems
mii and ethtool ioctls dont work on some cards with the interface down the negotiation delay in our scripts is a bit too short for gbit
I'm suspecting SuSE does
ifconfig eth0 up talk mii etc configure
and that masks all the power management and MII problems. Possibly we should switch to that behaviour
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Alan Cox -
Joe Robertson