Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Nov 2006 08:14:49 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: e1000/ICH8LAN weirdness - no ethtool link until initially forced up |
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Hi!
> [Please CC me on responses]. > > A spot of weirdness I ran into on my e1000 card. > It's the 82566DC model [8086:104b] (rev 02) x1 PCIe. > > After modprobe e1000, ethtool reports that there is no link, despite the > correct link lights on the port. This breaks booting during a boot process that > checks for actual link status before using a device. ... > This behavior differs from every other network card, and is also present in the > 7.3* version of the driver from sourceforge. > > I think the e1000 should try to raise the link during the probe, so that it > works properly, without having to set ifconfig ethX up first.
I think you should cc e1000 maintainers, and perhaps provide a patch....
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