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
