From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262948AbUJ0WRS (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:17:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262953AbUJ0WOE (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:14:04 -0400 Received: from smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.36.78]:40033 "HELO smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262931AbUJ0Vl6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:41:58 -0400 From: Shawn Starr Organization: sh0n.net To: Lee Revell , Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [2.6.10-rc1-bk5] e1000 broken badly on IBM T42 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:41:54 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com References: <200410270033.22804.shawn.starr@rogers.com> <200410270521.56816.shawn.starr@rogers.com> <1098892310.8313.1.camel@krustophenia.net> In-Reply-To: <1098892310.8313.1.camel@krustophenia.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410271741.55039.shawn.starr@rogers.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Actually, there is a bug, when suspending the laptop its not storing the negotiated link status and resets to gigabit. This looks to be a bug :-) Shawn. On October 27, 2004 11:51, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 05:21 -0400, Shawn Starr wrote: > > I should just answer it myself, restarting fixed the interface > > negotiation 'blip'. Perhaps the driver somehow did not reset and retry > > negotiation? > > > > That did look interesting though :) > > AIUI it's impossible to do 100% reliable autonegotiation with Ethernet. > The best you can do is try to detect when you might have gotten it wrong > and reset the interface. > > Lee