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From: "Paul Rolland" <rol@as2917.net>
To: "'Michael Knigge'" <Michael.Knigge@set-software.de>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange e1000
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 15:41:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <043501c2faaf$da061e10$3f00a8c0@witbe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030404.7255311@knigge.local.net>

Hello,

> when I load the e1000 module, my NIC is recognized. Then, "pump -i 
> eth0" is called (DHCP-Client), the message "e1000: eth0 NIC 
> Link is Up 
> 1000 Mbps Full Duplex" appears and after some time I get the message 
> "operation failed".
> 
> When I sleep some time (currently 20 seconds) before doing 
> the "pump", 
> everything works as expected.
> 
> What the hell is happening here? Ok, I got it working with the 
> 20-sec-sleep but this is not the way it sould work...
> 
> My Board is a Gigabyte GA-7ZXR (1.0) and the Intel NIC is a PRO/1000 
> MT (should be the 82540OEM Chip). The NIC is attached to a NetGear 
> FSM726S Switch (24x100 + 2x1000). It is currenty the only box 
> attached 

Could it be possible that the 1000MBps FD on the e1000 side is
a local configuration, and that it needs some time to discuss with
the Netgear switch to negotiate correctly speed and duplex before 
working correctly ? (i.e. 20 sec = negotiation time)

Regards,
Paul


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-04 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-04  7:25 Strange e1000 Michael Knigge
2003-04-04 13:41 ` Paul Rolland [this message]
2003-04-04 14:00   ` Michael Knigge
2003-04-04 14:19   ` Abhishek Agrawal
2003-04-04 18:14     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-05  8:41       ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-04-04 14:45   ` Justin Cormack
2003-04-04 15:48     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-04 17:02       ` Patrick R. McManus
2003-04-04 17:09         ` Patrick R. McManus
2003-04-07  7:45           ` Strange e1000 - SOLVED Michael Knigge
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-07 21:52 Strange e1000 Mroczek, Joseph T

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