netdev - atl1c fails to force 100 full duplex

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Message-ID: <1301523045.10056.94.camel@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:10:45 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Jay Cliburn <jcliburn@...il.com>,
	Chris Snook <chris.snook@...il.com>,
	Jie Yang <jie.yang@...eros.com>
Cc:	luca boncompagni <lbonco@...il.com>, 616081@...s.debian.org,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: atl1c fails to force 100 full duplex

On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 12:46 +0100, luca boncompagni wrote:
> I can't get more 100FD from my network card when running on 2.6.37, if
> I boot on 2.6.32 it works fine.
> 
> If i try to use mii-tool eth1 -F 100baseTx-FD I get the warning at the
> end of dmesg.

This is the usual TX watchdog warning.

> If I try to use ethtool I get no warning but it does not set full duplex.
[...]

Luca later reported that this is still broken in 2.6.38.  His full bug
report is at <http://bugs.debian.org/616081>.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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