Re: 3C905B-FX SC REV-A link problem

Donald Becker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Nix N. Nix wrote:

> When an interface based on this card, using the 3c59x driver, is brought 

What driver version?

> up, mii-tool version 1.60 reports no link, even though the card works 

Does 'mii-diag' work?

> properly and DHCP clients are able to work and ping also works.  Now, 
> normally this is not a problem.  Unfortunately, as of RedHat 8.0, they use 
> mii-tool to check the link status of an interface before even attempting 
> DHCP.

That's bogus on two points.
  The 'mii-tool' program should default to reporting a valid link if
  the status cannot determined

  RedHat should be using the DHCP timeout value.  Fix this with

echo 'DHCPCDARGS="-t 4"' >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0


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