On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:50:32AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > After some research, I found out that my eth1 indeed had no MII ioctl > support. So the installer was right to ask for choosing a NIC. > > People with multiple NICs, that do have MII ioctl support, > in their installed system and see that the live interface is detected, > please be carefull with closing this bugreport, because it is merged > with other bugreports. > > Confirming that "link detection" works is appreciated.
We have a number of Dell PowerEdge machines that do not indicate which interface has link when running d-i. dmesg(8) says the adapters are: eth0: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet eth1: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet and mii-tool(8) does detect the presence or absence of link: eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok eth1: no link These interfaces take a while to negotiate a link, probably because spanning tree is enabled on the switch ports they're attached to, so it necessarily takes a while for the port to enter the forwarding state. Is there a way to have d-i/netcfg sleep for a longer (configurable?) period of time before assuming no link has been negotiated? john -- John Morrissey _o /\ ---- __o [EMAIL PROTECTED] _-< \_ / \ ---- < \, www.horde.net/ __(_)/_(_)________/ \_______(_) /_(_)__ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
