On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 14:25 +0200, Raphael Wimmer wrote: > Package: whereami > Version: 0.3.32 > Severity: normal > > --- Please enter the report below this line. --- > Hi, > > I have a MacBook Pro C2D with a Marvell 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet > Controller (rev 22) (driver is sky2). > The testmii script brings up the interface and instantly uses mii-tool to > determine its state. > As the sky2 driver seems to take some time to bring the interface up, > mii-tool usually reports no link. > I've manually added a two second wait between bringing the interface up > and testing its link status. That seems to work. > Probably testmii should try several times before giving up.
Hi,
I'm kind of loathe to add delays in everywhere to make stuff work, but I
feel your pain :-)
Does it work any better using ethtool rather than mii-tool? I know that
there are many newer cards where mii-tool doesn't work at all, but
historically it has worked slightly more reliably...
Otherwise I will make it retry the test in a loop, with a 1 second delay
after each failure, for three tests (maximum of two seconds delay).
I'd also be interested in the output of the following:
export INTERFACE=eth0
ifconfig ${INTERFACE} down
sleep 5
ifconfig ${INTERFACE} up
mii-tool -v ${INTERFACE}
sleep 1
mii-tool -v ${INTERFACE}
sleep 1
mii-tool -v ${INTERFACE}
sleep 1
mii-tool -v ${INTERFACE}
Likewise, if you do try ethtool:
export INTERFACE=eth0
ifconfig ${INTERFACE} down
sleep 5
ifconfig ${INTERFACE} up
ethtool ${INTERFACE}
sleep 1
ethtool ${INTERFACE}
sleep 1
ethtool ${INTERFACE}
sleep 1
ethtool ${INTERFACE}
There may be something that I can use to identify the fact that the
device is not yet ready to be tested, but that it will be in just a few
moments...
Thanks,
Andrew.
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