I'm having trouble enabling flow control with the e1000 driver. I'm running Fedora Core 3 (currently a 2.6.11-ish kernel until the new one doesn't kill SMP machines). The e1000 driver is version 5.6.10.1-k2-NAPI. The Ethernet ports are on the motherboard (a SuperMicro X5DPE):
03:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01) 03:02.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01) The link partner is an Asante IntraCore 36480 switch which is configured to autonegotiate flow control. Flow control is negotiated fine with tg3 and e100 devices in other machines, but it doesn't work with a single e1000 device. I've tried passing FlowControl=3 and using ethtool -A to force it on, but the switch never sees it. In fact, I've tried poking and prodding every related (and not-so-related) tunable on both the driver and the switch to no avail. Is there a way for me to debug the autonegotiation process so I can see just what's going on? I tried passing "debug=16" to the module but things don't look any different afterward. (I suspect it's not compiled with debugging on, so I'll have to try a recompile.) Does anyone have any advice at all? I've asked around and even contacted the manufacturer but I can't make any progress. - J< - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
