On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 00:28 +0200, Patrick wrote: > 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. Hmmm. An interrupt conflict, possibly? A lot of video cards use IRQ9, and so do some network cards. Can cause issues... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
