Re: tg3 networking issue

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On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 22:25 +0200, Patrick wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 13:16 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> [snip]
> > Ok, so tg3 is now the official Broadcom driver (grumble!).  Still, try
> > turning off the autonegotiation bit and see if it helps.  Using ethtool:
> > 
> >     # ethtool -s ethX autoneg off speed 100 duplex full
> > 
> > Obviously, use your ethernet port for "ethX" and set the "speed"
> > parameter to whatever you need (10, 100, or 1000).
> > 
> > One of the complaints I have with the tg3 driver is that you have to use
> > ethtool to do this rather than stuffing parms into the modprobe.conf
> > file.
> 
> Thanks, will give that a try.

The ethtool trick did not work. I went back to kernel 2080 and enabled
the ati-fglrx module again. All is well now. Maybe this working setup is
useful to others although it does not explain why this was happening.

Regards,
Patrick 


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