I am having an issue where my link comes up as 10Mb/s if I plug in the cable after the system has booted, no matter what I connect to. Tested with kernel 4.7.8 and 4.14.73. If the cable is connected during boot the correct speed of 1000Mb/s is observed. I have multiple instances of this hardware setup and it happens with all of them reliably.
Here is some info: driver: e1000e version: 3.2.6-k firmware-version: 0.8-4 expansion-rom-version: bus-info: 0000:00:1f.6 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: yes supports-eeprom-access: yes supports-register-dump: yes supports-priv-flags: no -------------------------------------------------------- MAC Registers ------------- 0x00000: CTRL (Device control register) 0x40180240 Endian mode (buffers): little Link reset: normal Set link up: 1 Invert Loss-Of-Signal: no Receive flow control: disabled Transmit flow control: disabled VLAN mode: enabled Auto speed detect: disabled Speed select: 1000Mb/s Force speed: no Force duplex: no 0x00008: STATUS (Device status register) 0x40080000 Duplex: half Link up: no link config TBI mode: disabled Link speed: 10Mb/s Bus type: PCI Bus speed: 33MHz Bus width: 32-bit 0x00100: RCTL (Receive control register) 0x04008002 Receiver: enabled Store bad packets: disabled Unicast promiscuous: disabled Multicast promiscuous: disabled Long packet: disabled Descriptor minimum threshold size: 1/2 Broadcast accept mode: accept VLAN filter: disabled Canonical form indicator: disabled Discard pause frames: filtered Pass MAC control frames: don't pass Receive buffer size: 2048 0x02808: RDLEN (Receive desc length) 0x00001000 0x02810: RDH (Receive desc head) 0x00000000 0x02818: RDT (Receive desc tail) 0x000000F0 0x02820: RDTR (Receive delay timer) 0x00000000 0x00400: TCTL (Transmit ctrl register) 0x3103F0F8 Transmitter: disabled Pad short packets: enabled Software XOFF Transmission: disabled Re-transmit on late collision: enabled 0x03808: TDLEN (Transmit desc length) 0x00001000 0x03810: TDH (Transmit desc head) 0x00000000 0x03818: TDT (Transmit desc tail) 0x00000000 0x03820: TIDV (Transmit delay timer) 0x00000008 PHY type: unknown -------------------------------------------------------- Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Supported pause frame use: No Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: No Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 10Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on MDI-X: on (auto) Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000007 (7) drv probe link Link detected: yes Running a command like "ethtool -s eth5 advertise 20" or "ethtool -s eth5 advertise 2c" causes the link to go down and come back up with the right speed. If I then remove the cable for a few seconds and put it back in the speed will go back to 10Mb/s. Quicker than that and it seems to stay at 1000Mb/s. Here is a dmesg with the cable out at boot and then me plugging it in after: [root@trx-r6 /]# grep -ri 1000e a [ 12.836934] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 3.2.6-k [ 12.836936] e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2015 Intel Corporation. [ 12.841135] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6: Interrupt Throttling Rate (ints/sec) set to dynamic conservative mode [ 13.029402] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 0000:00:1f.6 (uninitialized): registered PHC clock [ 13.107349] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth5: (PCI Express:2.5GT/s:Width x1) 00:13:f2:a0:01:85 [ 13.107352] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth5: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection [ 13.107408] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth5: MAC: 12, PHY: 12, PBA No: FFFFFF-0FF [ 2957.722516] e1000e: eth5 NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: Rx/Tx [ 2957.722521] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth5: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO Cable in the whole time during boot: [ 12.273114] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 3.2.6-k [ 12.273116] e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2015 Intel Corporation. [ 12.276161] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6: Interrupt Throttling Rate (ints/sec) set to dynamic conservative mode [ 12.375477] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 0000:00:1f.6 (uninitialized): registered PHC clock [ 12.458574] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth5: (PCI Express:2.5GT/s:Width x1) 00:13:f2:a0:01:85 [ 12.458578] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth5: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection [ 12.458631] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth5: MAC: 12, PHY: 12, PBA No: FFFFFF-0FF [ 133.384512] e1000e: eth5 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: Rx/Tx Any ideas? Regards, -- Paul _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired