Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: TG3 doesn't work in kernel 2.4.27 (David S. Miller) | From | Roland Dreier <> | Date | Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:40:03 -0700 |
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Brian> The problem seems to be that autoneg is disabled on the IBM Brian> switches. After disabling autoneg on the Sun shelf Brian> switches, I see the problem. This patch fixes things by Brian> reverting to sw autoneg which defaults to a Brian> 1000Mbps/full-duplex link but with no flow control when it Brian> fails (IBM should really have autoneg enabled!) - I'd Brian> appreciate it if someone could test this against an IBM Brian> blade.
Yes, 2.6.8.1 with this patch works for me on a JS20. There is a pause of maybe 20 seconds when the interface is brough up (while hardware autoneg times out?) and then the network comes up (and serial-over-lan recovers).
Unfortunately this patch doesn't apply to the latest bk (3.9) tg3 driver.
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