On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:49:26 -0800 "Tony Chung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I got the following message: > > Class: Hardware failure > Nr: 0x270 > Msg: 2 Pair Downshift detected > > It is from the sk98lin driver and my research indicated that it may be > caused by bad Ethernet cable. The gigabit port is now became 100Mbps. > > My questions are: > 1. What is 0x270 mean? Is there any link or reference for it? It is a error code used inside driver. It looks like a bad job of internationalization so every message is encoded as a number, then printed out. > 2. How do you recover from it (i.e. negotiate back to 1000Mbps)? > Reboot? Reload the driver? Can the driver do it automatically? Use 'ethtool -r eth0' to force PHY renegotiation or bring device down then back up. > > Thanks. > - Tony > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
