8139too Ethernet Woes
Bob Chiodini
chiodr at kscems.ksc.nasa.gov
Fri Nov 19 13:52:46 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 08:21, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Bob Chiodini wrote:
> > I can generally ssh into my home machine from work, but with FC3 I'm
> > seeing the following in /var/log/messages:
> >
> > Nov 19 07:01:38 littlenail kernel: eth0: link down
> > Nov 19 07:01:40 littlenail kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
> > Nov 19 07:01:53 littlenail kernel: eth0: link down
> > Nov 19 07:01:55 littlenail kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
> >
> > The ssh session usually recovers. I saw these messages in FC2 as well,
> > but they did not seem as detrimental. Yum rarely recovers, at least not
> > within my patience level.
> >
> > The driver loaded for the Ethernet interface is 8139too. Upstream is a
> > DLink DI-624. Any insight?
>
> Looks like Ethernet problems to me. Can you try setting the Ethernet
> link to 10 Mbit/s half duplex? 100 Mbit/s half duplex? (I have seen
> Ethernet autoconfiguration cause major problems in the past).
>
> Use the ethtool command with the -s flag to play around with this: man
> ethtool for more details. But I'd recommend:
> ethtool eth0
> to see current settings,
>
> ethtool -s eth0 [speed 10|100|1000] [duplex half|full] [autoneg on|off]
>
> It might yet be dodgy cables.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> James.
James,
Thanks.
I'll give ethtool try when I get home, in case I cut off my own arm.
It would be interesting to know the definition of the lpa bits.
Bob...
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