From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olaf Hering Subject: Re: dead network on JS21 with tg3 driver after flowcontrol changes Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:13:30 +0200 Message-ID: <20080516081330.GA26530@aepfle.de> References: <20080515121340.GA23033@aepfle.de> <20080515171520.GA20953@localdomain> <1210881078.22745.9.camel@dell> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Matt Carlson , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, netdev To: Michael Chan Return-path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:33889 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755426AbYEPINd (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 04:13:33 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1210881078.22745.9.camel@dell> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, May 15, Michael Chan wrote: > Matt, I think that's very likely the problem. If we are trying to > establish link in parallel detect mode, the flow control settings may > not match. If we do not enter the if statement to do nothing, we will > keep autonegotiating forever and never establish link. Yes, this patch fixes nfsroot for me. Thanks. mii-tool is not shipped anymore, even in SLES10. I assume that ethtool is the replacement? Olaf