tg3 networking issue

Patrick fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl
Mon Jul 17 20:25:38 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 13:16 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
[snip]
> Ok, so tg3 is now the official Broadcom driver (grumble!).  Still, try
> turning off the autonegotiation bit and see if it helps.  Using ethtool:
> 
>     # ethtool -s ethX autoneg off speed 100 duplex full
> 
> Obviously, use your ethernet port for "ethX" and set the "speed"
> parameter to whatever you need (10, 100, or 1000).
> 
> One of the complaints I have with the tg3 driver is that you have to use
> ethtool to do this rather than stuffing parms into the modprobe.conf
> file.

Thanks, will give that a try.

Regards,
Patrick





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