Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6.10-rc1-bk5] e1000 broken badly on IBM T42 | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:51:50 -0400 |
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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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