Bug#703040: No 1000baseT connection via crosslink with BCM95720 and tg3 module

2013-03-22 Thread Frank Menzel
Bastian, Are you using a crossed ethernet cable? Don't do that. All GBit interfaces have to do that on its own. I'm not using a crossed cable, but I actually agree with Ben that it shouldn't make a difference. The interesting part is, that the connection comes up as 1000baseT as soon as I pu

Bug#703040: No 1000baseT connection via crosslink with BCM95720 and tg3 module

2013-03-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 06:59:46PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 03:51:36PM +0100, Frank Menzel wrote: > > Package: firmware-linux-nonfree > > I don't think so. Right, this package only has firmware for some very old tg3 chips. Most likely this is a bug in the driver, or

Bug#703040: No 1000baseT connection via crosslink with BCM95720 and tg3 module

2013-03-14 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 03:51:36PM +0100, Frank Menzel wrote: > Package: firmware-linux-nonfree I don't think so. > Two Dell PowerEdge R620 connected via crosslink using the onboard Are you using a crossed ethernet cable? Don't do that. All GBit interfaces have to do that on its own. Bastian -

Bug#703040: No 1000baseT connection via crosslink with BCM95720 and tg3 module

2013-03-14 Thread Frank Menzel
Package: firmware-linux-nonfree Version: 0.28+squeeze1 Two Dell PowerEdge R620 connected via crosslink using the onboard NICs (obviously a BCM5720 which is specifically produced for Dell and called BCM95720 then) don't negotiate to 1000baseT/Full, but only to 100baseT/Full. Setting the speed