On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 10:06:40AM +1000, Malik Jayawardena wrote: > I'll see if I can check the switch out and see what's going on at that > end... but.. why would the other XW6000 boxes be working alright at boot > and not these particular boxes? > ....deep breath.... and.. Why would the switch be auto-negotiating with > the module/device after it is unloaded and reloaded and not a boot? > Would there be a difference? >
These are eternal mysteries. Despite being assured by people who should know, I've never found autoneg reliable on any platform, sun, hp, windows, linux > Also is there away to manually configure the module/eth0 device to just > start up with these settings? Yeah, usually in /etc/modprobe.conf. You'll have to look at the docs for your card most likely. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
