fc2 - network restart fails - e1000 / Extreme Network Switch

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Mon Jun 21 23:30:28 UTC 2004


On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:43:18PM -0700, Joe Robertson wrote:
> -- FYI: I have tried using another distro (SuSE) and I have not found
> any of the
> numerous networking problems that occur in Fedora.  I think they are all
> using the same drivers so it must be the code that calls the drivers...

>From some of the bugs I've looked at and fixed I suspect its the way they
are called that is differing. There are two general problems

	mii and ethtool ioctls dont work on some cards with the interface down
	the negotiation delay in our scripts is a bit too short for gbit

I'm suspecting SuSE does

	ifconfig eth0 up
	talk mii etc
	configure

and that masks all the power management and MII problems. Possibly we should
switch to that behaviour





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