Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> The connection has not had a failure for some days now (many shutdowns
> and reboots, but no interruption of power to the modem or the
> computer), even though renegotiation is likely happening often. Also,
> when failure occurs the only thing which appears to fix it is to shut
> down and power down the computer. I conclude from this that most
> likely the NIC occasionally gets into a bad state during power-up.
I have a GigE NIC on my T60 and was curious what ethtool would report
when I connected it up to to a Linksys WRT56G router.
Ethtool did report "link partner" info, which was interesting because my
NIC was advertising auto-neg but the Linksys is not.
~# ethtool eth0
Settings for
eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP
]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half
10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Link partner advertised link modes: Not reported
Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: No
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 1
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: off
Supports Wake-on: pumbag
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0x00000001 (1)
Link detected: yes
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