Just comment out the lines in the tg3.c sources that say: if (GET_ASIC_REV(tp->pci_chip_rev_id) == ASIC_REV_5704 && tp->phy_id == PHY_ID_SERDES) { /* Enable hardware link auto-negotiation */ u32 digctrl, txctrl; digctrl = SG_DIG_USING_HW_AUTONEG | SG_DIG_CRC16_CLEAR_N | SG_DIG_LOCAL_DUPLEX_STATUS | SG_DIG_LOCAL_LINK_STATUS | (2 << SG_DIG_SPEED_STATUS_SHIFT) | SG_DIG_FIBER_MODE | SG_DIG_GBIC_ENABLE; txctrl = tr32(MAC_SERDES_CFG); tw32_f(MAC_SERDES_CFG, txctrl | MAC_SERDES_CFG_EDGE_SELECT); tw32_f(SG_DIG_CTRL, digctrl | SG_DIG_SOFT_RESET); tr32(SG_DIG_CTRL); udelay(5); tw32_f(SG_DIG_CTRL, digctrl); tp->tg3_flags2 |= TG3_FLG2_HW_AUTONEG; } and be happy. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html