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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dead network on JS21 with tg3 driver after flowcontrol changes
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:13:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080516081330.GA26530@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1210881078.22745.9.camel@dell>

On Thu, May 15, Michael Chan wrote:

> Matt, I think that's very likely the problem.  If we are trying to
> establish link in parallel detect mode, the flow control settings may
> not match.  If we do not enter the if statement to do nothing, we will
> keep autonegotiating forever and never establish link.

Yes, this patch fixes nfsroot for me. Thanks.
mii-tool is not shipped anymore, even in SLES10.
I assume that ethtool is the replacement?

Olaf

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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dead network on JS21 with tg3 driver after flowcontrol changes
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:13:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080516081330.GA26530@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1210881078.22745.9.camel@dell>

On Thu, May 15, Michael Chan wrote:

> Matt, I think that's very likely the problem.  If we are trying to
> establish link in parallel detect mode, the flow control settings may
> not match.  If we do not enter the if statement to do nothing, we will
> keep autonegotiating forever and never establish link.

Yes, this patch fixes nfsroot for me. Thanks.
mii-tool is not shipped anymore, even in SLES10.
I assume that ethtool is the replacement?

Olaf

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-16  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-15 12:13 dead network on JS21 with tg3 driver after flowcontrol changes Olaf Hering
2008-05-15 15:10 ` Michael Chan
2008-05-15 15:10   ` Michael Chan
2008-05-15 15:49   ` Olaf Hering
2008-05-15 17:37     ` Michael Chan
2008-05-15 17:37       ` Michael Chan
2008-05-15 17:15 ` Matt Carlson
2008-05-15 17:15   ` Matt Carlson
2008-05-15 19:51   ` Michael Chan
2008-05-15 19:51     ` Michael Chan
2008-05-16  8:13     ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2008-05-16  8:13       ` Olaf Hering
2008-05-16 15:09       ` Michael Chan
2008-05-16 15:09         ` Michael Chan

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