Most of the time when this has happened to us, it's been more of a switch issue. Have you used these switch ports with other PowerEdge servers before?
Sent from my iPad On Jul 22, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Robin Bowes <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23/07/10 00:02, David Hubbard wrote: >> Has anyone had issues with R300's and the stock CentOS 5.5 x86_64 tg3 >> driver not auto negotiating properly? We use Foundry (aka Brocade) >> switches and I have an R300 that insists on negotiating to 10-half, I >> had to use ethtool to force it to 100-full. Have not tried at gig. >> Would prefer to not have to hard code since we dislike having to hard >> code switch ports for other reasons. > > How are you determining that it is only running at 10-half? > > I had an issue some time ago (different NIC, different driver) where I > thought that the NICs were not running at Gb speed, but it turned out > that mii-diag didn't report the correct information., but ethtool did. > > I guessing from what you've said that this is *not* the problem in your > case, but thought I'd mention it. > > R. > -- > "Feed that ego and you starve the soul" - Colonel J.D. Wilkes > http://www.theshackshakers.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
