Hi. On Wednesday 05 April 2006 00:15, Prakash Punnoor wrote: > Am Dienstag März 28 2006 23:47 schrieb Nigel Cunningham: > > Hi. > > > > On Wednesday 29 March 2006 03:30, Prakash Punnoor wrote: > > > Hi, I am just wondering whether you found out what the issue is with > > > the link problem. If you have some patch ready (even if it is hackish) > > > I would be happy to use it. > > > > > > Anyways, I know you are busy with swsusp2. ;-) > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Yes, I do have a patch. It is hackish at the moment because as you've > > rightly guessed, I haven't gotten around to finishing it. It also doesn't > > work perfectly - I sometimes need to rmmod and insmod after booting a new > > kernel to get the link to come up. But, apart from that, it works fine. > > Thx for sharing it. Unfortunately it doesn't help me. (I am not using > suspend or anything on that machine as it is supposed to be running 24/7.) > After pulling out the LAN cable and putting it back in. network is dead. > The driver (even unpatched) sees the cable is back in, but obviously > wrongly > reinitializes(?) the nic: Ie, kernel says after pluggin cable back in: > > uli526x: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full duplex > > but network is dead. > > I have to do: > > ifconfig eth0 down > modprobe -r uli526x > modprobe uli526x > ifconfig eth0 up > dhclient > > And then it works again. Yes, this is what I was describing too. I need to learn more about how the link control works. Regards, Nigel
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