netdev - Re: Help interpreting MII negotiation

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Date:	Thu, 07 May 2009 03:55:12 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help interpreting MII negotiation

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 22:03 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> I don't understand why speed selection is getting set at 10Mbps in this example.
> It looks to me like the devices auto negotiated 100Mbps.
[...]

The "speed selection" bits have no meaning unless auto-negotiation is
disabled.

Ben.

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