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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 20:17:16 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Steve Briggs <s-briggs@cecer.army.mil>
Cc: linux-ns83820@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/ns83820.c: add paramter to disable auto
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Steve Briggs <s-briggs@cecer.army.mil> wrote:
>
> This patch adds a module paramter, "auto_neg" which is
>  by default =1.  If it's set to zero, the auto negotiation
>  code in ns83820_init_one() is skipped and the interface is
>  set to 1000F.

Better to do this via `ethtool autoneg off'.