On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Federico Raspall Chaure wrote:

> Hi,
>  I have a dual-port fibre Ethernet nic (Dual port PF, 82571GB controller)
> which does not allow me to disable auto-negotiation (with ethttool -s ethx
> autoneg off.)
> 
> Browsing the source code of the driver and the "interfacing" code to
> ethttool (e1000e.c, ethtool.c and 82571.c) it appears that autoneg is
> always enabled for fibre PHYs. Is there a way to disable autoneg in these
> cards?

First, tell us what you're trying to do.  There really is only one speed, 
so not much to negotiate.  What are you attaching to etc?

Jesse



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