Re: 3C905B-FX SC REV-A link problem
"Nix N. Nix" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel |
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On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 19:49, Donald Becker wrote:
> 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?
Umm, is this what you're looking for ?
LK1.1.18ac 01Jul02 akpm
- Fix for undocumented transceiver power-up bit on some 3c566B's
(Donald Becker, Rahul Karnik)
This is from the 3c59x.c file as distributed with RedHat Linux 8.0
>
> > up, mii-tool version 1.60 reports no link, even though the card works
>
> Does 'mii-diag' work?
Sorry, I don't have mii-diag on that particular machine, and I don't
want to mess with the default RedHat install, because it's a production
machine.
>
> > 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
Well, here's the output of mii-tool:
(I'm logged in from remote as I get this output, so, obviously, the
interface is up and working properly)
[root@wep10589 root]# /sbin/mii-tool eth0
eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link
[root@wep10589 root]#
>
> RedHat should be using the DHCP timeout value. Fix this with
>
> echo 'DHCPCDARGS="-t 4"' >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
RedHat 8.0 uses dhclient, not dhcpcd.
>
>
> --
> Donald Becker [email protected]
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>
Thanks for all the help.
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