upgrade to rawhide report

Colin Walters walters at redhat.com
Mon Aug 23 13:30:55 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 07:48 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 10:02:54PM -0400, Peter Arremann wrote:
> > We've had the same issue with a couple of via-rhine and realtec 8139 
> > cards... The problem seems to be that the driver does not allow you to
> > read certain things like mac address unless the interface is actually up.
> 
> We've been kicking around the idea that this should in fact become
> mandatory.
> 
> > know if that fixes your issue. Last time I brought this up on this list, I was
> > told that it wasn't a kudzu issue but that the driver needs fixing. 
> 
> The problem with that view (which indeed was certainly my view and I fixed
> some drivers) is that from "up" it can take 60 seconds to get gigabit
> negotiation completed. 

This definitely sucks from a UI point of view.  We will need to provide
progress feedback to the user somehow.  Probably autodetect "is this
gigabit", and if so, NetworkManager could pop up a dialog perhaps with a
cancel button.  If you hit cancel it would fall back to wireless.

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