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From: Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@rogers.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6.10-rc1-bk5] e1000 broken badly on IBM T42
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:41:54 -0400
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Actually, there is a bug, when suspending the laptop its not storing the 
negotiated link status and resets to gigabit.

This looks to be a bug :-)

Shawn.

On October 27, 2004 11:51, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 05:21 -0400, Shawn Starr wrote:
> > I should just answer it myself, restarting fixed the interface
> > negotiation 'blip'. Perhaps the driver somehow did not reset and retry
> > negotiation?
> >
> > That did look interesting though :)
>
> AIUI it's impossible to do 100% reliable autonegotiation with Ethernet.
> The best you can do is try to detect when you might have gotten it wrong
> and reset the interface.
>
> Lee