From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC][PATCH] spidernet: enable fiber autonegotiation Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:05:12 +0100 Message-ID: <200611271605.12784.arnd@arndb.de> References: <200611271547.07433.jens@de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jens Osterkamp , netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:38110 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758271AbWK0PF1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:05:27 -0500 To: cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org In-Reply-To: <200611271547.07433.jens@de.ibm.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Monday 27 November 2006 15:47, Jens Osterkamp wrote: > > While experimenting with a copper passthrough module in bladecenter I found > out that this needs autonegotiation enabled in order to work properly. > This quick hack enables it with the sideeffect of breaking other bladecenter > switch configurations. > If anyone has any suggestions or has experimented with the same configuration, > feel free to comment. There was a patch from Ishizaki Kou recently, to set up autonegotiate and other things, see http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=8121 . Are you sure that you don't need any of those changes as well? Arnd <><