From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amin Azez Subject: Re: e100 breakage located Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:17:07 +0000 Message-ID: <457A7F13.6050002@ufomechanic.net> References: <45641A4E.6020505@ufomechanic.net> <4807377b0611301134q33d1cd78l5a1f2eda33da21bc@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michael.ODonnell@stratus.com, NetDEV list , Auke Kok Return-path: Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.85]:1512 "EHLO anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936563AbWLIJRA (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 04:17:00 -0500 To: Jesse Brandeburg In-Reply-To: <4807377b0611301134q33d1cd78l5a1f2eda33da21bc@mail.gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > sorry for the delay, your mail got marked as spam. In the future > please copy networking issues to netdev@vger.kernel.org, and be sure > to copy the maintainers of the driver you're having problems with > (they are in the MAINTAINERS file) > > On 11/22/06, Amin Azez wrote: >> I notice a patch in 2005 from Micahel O'Donnel to the e100.c driver has >> stopped auto-crossover working on some e100 devices we use. >> >> On one system the auto-negotiation was restored by commenting out: >> (nic->mac == mac_82551_10) in function e100_phy_init where the MDI/MDI-X >> is disabled. > > are you sure that patch did that? What version of e100 are you using? > we've since enabled MDI-X on most parts with this patch: > http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=60ffa478759f39a2eb3be1ed179bc3764804b2c8;hp=09e590e5d5a93f2eaa748a89c623258e6bad1648 > > > Please try the latest kernel or the latest e100 available from > e1000.sf.net > if that doesn't work we'll need to know what kernel are you using? Let me have another check and get back to you. It will be at least a week though. Thanks for your response. Sam