From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Nithin Nayak Sujir" Subject: Re: tg3 adapter losing link - PM related? Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 11:48:22 -0700 Message-ID: <51840676.5000004@broadcom.com> References: <20130503092846.GA5126@pcnci.linuxbox.cz> <5183D40B.8090605@broadcom.com> <1367606390.2756.6.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Nikola Ciprich" , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: "Ben Hutchings" Return-path: Received: from mms2.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.18]:3392 "EHLO mms2.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762990Ab3ECSsb (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 May 2013 14:48:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1367606390.2756.6.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/03/2013 11:39 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 08:13 -0700, Nithin Nayak Sujir wrote: >> Hi Nikola, >> 1. What device is present on this server? Can you give the tg3 messages >> in /var/log/messages? Can you also give the output of "ethtool -i "? >> >> 2. Is it possible for you to try the latest 3.9 upstream kernel? >> >> 3. Any reason why the link is at 100Mb? The switch does not support gig? >> What switch is it? >> >> 4. I don't think you can turn off EEE in the bios, but you can try >> turning autoneg off. Try "ethtool -s speed 100 duplex full >> autoneg off". It's not exactly the same thing since the device still has >> EEE enabled but not negotiated. > [...] > > It should be possible to disable EEE with ethtool. You really should > implement the EEE configuration operations in tg3 if you're going to > enable it at all. > I agree. I plan to have a patch when netdev opens. > Ben. >