From: Patrick Finnegan <pat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 01:48:12 -0500 > Ok. this looks like it fixes the problem with the fiber-port gem, but > the 10/100 TP gem just bounces back and forth between these messages, > and never gets link: > > [ 174.260495] eth0: switching to forced 10bt > [ 194.660290] eth0: switching to forced 100bt > > Ideas? It does this even with the interface not configured (down > according to ifconfig), which is kinda annoying on the console... I have > to do an "ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off" to make it stop. This is a feature. It tries different possibilities trying to get a link going. I'm not to thrilled about it and it is different from how other network drivers behave. I'll try to find some time to take a look at this, thanks for the report Patrick. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
