On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Ben Green <ben.gr...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed 10 duplex full autoneg off" > > I've made this permanent change to a couple of Dell workstations (one is > i686/FC6, the other x86_64/Centos5) running Toolkit VenueServer and it works > fine. > > However, when I do this on a Dell PowerEdge 1750 (RHEL3) the network device > doesn't initialise on bootup. Having searched the boot.log files, it seems > that kudzu stalls on bootup, and fails to initialise device eth0. As soon as > I remove the above line from the ifcfg-eth0 file, kudzu is OK and the eth0 > device initialises fine. What network device driver? Some NICs don't play nicely with ethtool. -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu Phone: (210) 567-2672
