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To: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc: romieu@fr.zoreil.com (Francois Romieu), dave@thedillows.org (David Dillow),
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, edward_hsu@realtek.com.tw (Edward Hsu)
Subject: Re: Realtek 8168D: no active link (2.6.29.2)
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From: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:27:04 +0200
In-Reply-To: <200905251014.n4PAEi0k027544@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au> (Jonathan Woithe's message of "Mon\, 25 May 2009 19\:44\:44 +0930 \(CST\)")
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Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au> writes:

>   ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 10
>     - 10 Mbps speed set
>
>   ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 100
>     - 100 Mbps speed achieved
>
>   ethtool -s eth0 autoneg on speed 1000
>     - 1000 Mbps speed attained
>
> The duplex setting might not be having an effect though since my switch's
> FDx (full duplex) LED was extinguished for both the 10 and 100 Mbps cases
> above.  Explicitly setting the duplex flag using
>
>   ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 100 duplex full
>
> didn't make any difference - the FDx LED remained off.

You turned auto negotiation off, and you are surprised that the switch
doesn't autonegotiate full duplex?


/Benny