Hello Alex, What's the device at the other end of the RJ45 cable? According to mii-tool manpage, some passive devices (such as one-speed hubs) don't understand anything about auto-negotiating, which might confuse the nic or the driver. I'd try hooking up with another hub or perhaps to yourself w/ a crossover cable (you have two NICs, right?)
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 14:19, Alex Bennee wrote: > Has anyone else been experiencing problems with ethernet on boot? > Basically I have been unable to get DHCP based configuration working, > probably because the network card doesn't start cleanly. I can resolve > the problem by doing a: > > mii-tool -r -v > mii-tool -R > > and waiting 60 seconds or so. Eventually the ethernet shows it is > recieving packets. The weird thing is this lock up occurs on both the > in-built rtl8139 ethernet and the PCI DP83815 (natsemi.o) so I'm unsure > if this is entirely driver related. > > Any ideas before I just hack the mii-tool resets into the networking > scripts? -- Mikko Lipasti Polarcom Consulting Oy :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +358 (0)40 5590 988
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