Re: [E1000-devel] autoneg fiber e1000

[Dave, T. N <tus...@in...>]

From: Nicolas Parpandet [mailto:np...@1g...] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 10:53 AM
To: Dave, Tushar N
Cc: e10...@li...
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] autoneg fiber e1000

>
>As you can see autoneg is forced on, and my link doesn't come up because
>of this.
>The other side is a cisco with nonegociate .
>
>Setting speed and duplex, even with "advertise 0x020" doesn't work, I have
>to disable negociation.

>Have you tried 'ethtool -A ethx autoneg off'

>Already tried ;)

>ethtool -A eth6 autoneg off
>autoneg unmodified, ignoring
>no pause parameters changed, aborting

Well looks like then autoneg is disabled then. Run ethtool -a ethx.
Also, fiber can only do 1gig full duplex and therefore driver always forced speed + duplex in case of fiber and so there is nothing much to negotiate.


-Tushar