** Reply to message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 11 Aug 2003 09:10:59 +0100
> Good morning all, > > The mystery still wonders around in my laptop. I posted a few weeks back > with a problem on a realtek 8139 netword card. > > Well here are the results of mii-diag --watch (this app watches the link) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ./mii-diag --watch > Using the default interface 'eth0'. > Basic registers of MII PHY #32: 0000 780d 0000 0000 01e1 0000 0000 0000. > Basic mode control register 0x0000: Auto-negotiation disabled, with > Speed fixed at 10 mbps, half-duplex. > You have link beat, and everything is working OK. > Link partner information is not exchanged when in fixed speed mode. > End of basic transceiver information. > > Monitoring the MII transceiver status. > 09:32:54.698 Baseline value of MII BMSR (basic mode status register) is > 780d. > 09:32:58.829 MII BMSR now 7809: no link, NWay busy, No Jabber (0000). > 09:33:01.169 MII BMSR now 780d: Good link, NWay busy, No Jabber (0000). > 09:33:04.699 MII BMSR now 7809: no link, NWay busy, No Jabber (0000). > 09:33:06.829 MII BMSR now 780d: Good link, NWay busy, No Jabber (0000). > 09:34:12.959 MII BMSR now 7809: no link, NWay busy, No Jabber (0000). > 09:34:17.689 MII BMSR now 780d: Good link, NWay busy, No Jabber (0000). > 09:34:19.419 MII BMSR now 7809: no link, NWay busy, No Jabber (0000). > 09:34:21.549 MII BMSR now 780d: Good link, NWay busy, No Jabber (0000). > 09:34:22.479 MII BMSR now 7809: no link, NWay busy, No Jabber (0000). > 09:34:24.789 MII BMSR now 780d: Good link, NWay busy, No Jabber (0000). > 09:34:25.029 MII BMSR now 7809: no link, NWay busy, No Jabber (0000). > 09:34:27.359 MII BMSR now 780d: Good link, NWay busy, No Jabber (0000). > > > > So as you can see when it says no link - I pulled the cable, when its says > Good link the cable was plugged in. > > In previous posts we established that module is loading ok. > > I can rmmod 8139too > insmod 8139too > ifconfig eth0 up > > > cool.... assigns a fixed IP and then bam ... no transmission > > Anyone got any ideas, before I use this laptop as a javalin..? Sure. Try the following: /usr/sbin/ethtool -s eth0 duplex full autoneg on and see what happens. jb -- Jack Bowling Prince George, BC mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
