On 1/31/07, Slawek Zak <slawek.zak_at_gmail.com> wrote: > I have a question for someone familiar with this driver. I must > enforce Gb/Full-duplex before the end of boot. I have IBM BladeCenter > chassis which internally uses Nortel 2-3 switches which in turn do not > allow for autonegotiation of internal interfaces. > > I want to run a diskless configuration so changing the bits with > ifconfig is not an option. Tweaking settings in PXE boot agent doesn't > help - the link preference is not preserved after kernel starts > booting. I've implemented a half-baked solution just to make the darn thing work. Assuming you have gentbi PHY (check the dmesg), the following patch removes auto negotiation and half-duplex handling for SX interface, thus leaving 1000FD only. Tested on IBM LS21 blades. Enjoy. /S -- Sławek Żak / UNIX Systems Administrator
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