Re: Patch for link detection for R8169

2005-09-08 Thread Francois Romieu
Miroslaw Mieszczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > Francois Romieu napisał(a): > > >You can silence this message in 2.6.13 by using the 'msglvl' > >option of the ethtool command. > > It would be disabled only this message, or all warning messages from the > net driver? One issues 'ethtool msglvl xyz' wh

Re: Patch for link detection for R8169

2005-09-07 Thread Francois Romieu
Miroslaw Mieszczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > The main problem with this driver is, that if I do like this, then every > 10 seconds I receive new message from the network card in kernel log. > There is following message: > > Sep 4 16:31:43 laptop_mirka eth0: PHY reset until link up > Sep 4 1

Re: Patch for link detection for R8169

2005-09-07 Thread Miroslaw Mieszczak
Francois Romieu napisał(a): [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] Ok, thanks for the hint. Currently one can do 'ifconfig ethX up', check the link status, then try to DHCP or whatever. Apparently a few drivers do not support tne detection of link as presented above. So is it anything l

Re: Patch for link detection for R8169

2005-09-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Francois Romieu wrote: Miroslaw Mieszczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : There is a patch to driver of RLT8169 network card. This match make possible detection of the link status even if network interface is down. This is usefull for laptop users. (side note: there is maintainer entry for the r8169

Re: Patch for link detection for R8169

2005-09-06 Thread Francois Romieu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:42:21 +0200, Francois Romieu said: > > > Currently one can do 'ifconfig ethX up', check the link status, then try > > to DHCP or whatever. Apparently a few drivers do not support tne detection > > of link as presented above. So is it

Re: Patch for link detection for R8169

2005-09-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:42:21 +0200, Francois Romieu said: > Currently one can do 'ifconfig ethX up', check the link status, then try > to DHCP or whatever. Apparently a few drivers do not support tne detection > of link as presented above. So is it anything like a vendor requirement/a > standard (

Re: Patch for link detection for R8169

2005-09-06 Thread Francois Romieu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] Ok, thanks for the hint. Currently one can do 'ifconfig ethX up', check the link status, then try to DHCP or whatever. Apparently a few drivers do not support tne detection of link as presented above. So is it anything like a vendor requirement/a stan

Re: Patch for link detection for R8169

2005-09-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:46:02 +0200, Francois Romieu said: > Miroslaw Mieszczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > There is a patch to driver of RLT8169 network card. This match make > > possible detection of the link status even if network interface is down. > > This is usefull for laptop users. > > (side

Re: Patch for link detection for R8169

2005-09-06 Thread Francois Romieu
Miroslaw Mieszczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > There is a patch to driver of RLT8169 network card. This match make > possible detection of the link status even if network interface is down. > This is usefull for laptop users. (side note: there is maintainer entry for the r8169 and network related pat

Re: Patch for link detection for R8169

2005-09-06 Thread Matthieu CASTET
Le Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:32:39 +0200, Miroslaw Mieszczak a écrit : > There is a patch to driver of RLT8169 network card. This match make > possible detection of the link status even if network interface is down. > This is usefull for laptop users. > > > > --- r8169.c 2005-09-02 15:34:52.00

Patch for link detection for R8169

2005-09-06 Thread Miroslaw Mieszczak
There is a patch to driver of RLT8169 network card. This match make possible detection of the link status even if network interface is down. This is usefull for laptop users. --- r8169.c 2005-09-02 15:34:52.0 +0200 +++ linux/drivers/net/r8169.c 2005-09-05 21:11:15.0 +0200