Re: 3C905B-FX SC REV-A link problem
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel |
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| 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 -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Scyld Beowulf cluster system Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex