From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: sk98lin: 2 Pair Downshift detected Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:35:32 -0800 Message-ID: <20070215133532.7523c7e3@freekitty> References: <626DF2B4C31B7D4CA3820BD8245FC4AA0170EADA@AIEX01.ai.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: To: "Tony Chung" Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:35101 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161413AbXBOVff (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:35:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: <626DF2B4C31B7D4CA3820BD8245FC4AA0170EADA@AIEX01.ai.local> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:49:26 -0800 "Tony Chung" wrote: > Hi, > > I got the following message: > > Class: Hardware failure > Nr: 0x270 > Msg: 2 Pair Downshift detected > > It is from the sk98lin driver and my research indicated that it may be > caused by bad Ethernet cable. The gigabit port is now became 100Mbps. > > My questions are: > 1. What is 0x270 mean? Is there any link or reference for it? It is a error code used inside driver. It looks like a bad job of internationalization so every message is encoded as a number, then printed out. > 2. How do you recover from it (i.e. negotiate back to 1000Mbps)? > Reboot? Reload the driver? Can the driver do it automatically? Use 'ethtool -r eth0' to force PHY renegotiation or bring device down then back up. > > Thanks. > - Tony > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Stephen Hemminger