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Re: [2.6.10-rc1-bk5] e1000 broken badly on IBM T42

To: Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [2.6.10-rc1-bk5] e1000 broken badly on IBM T42
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:51:50 -0400
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <200410270521.56816.shawn.starr@rogers.com>
References: <200410270033.22804.shawn.starr@rogers.com> <200410270054.30313.shawn.starr@rogers.com> <200410270521.56816.shawn.starr@rogers.com>
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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


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