[ale] ethtool advertised link modes

[Ryan Fish]

RHEL3 AS / 2.4.21-40.ELsmp

 

Dual port Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5703X Gigabit Ethernet

 

See the ethtool output below.  Why are the advertised link modes on the two
ports of this dual NIC different?  Is there a way to force eth2 to advertise
1000baseT/Full?  Neither the man page for ethtool nor Google have been of
any help so far.  BTW, neither of those ports are connected to anything yet
but will be soon.

 

Thank you.

-Ryan

 

 

Settings for eth2:

        Supported ports: [ MII ]

        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 

                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 

                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full 

        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes

        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Full 

                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 

        Advertised auto-negotiation: No

        Speed: Unknown! (0)

        Duplex: Half

        Port: Twisted Pair

        PHYAD: 1

        Transceiver: internal

        Auto-negotiation: on

        Supports Wake-on: g

        Wake-on: d

        Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)

        Link detected: no

 

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Settings for eth3:

        Supported ports: [ MII ]

        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 

                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 

                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full 

        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes

        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 

                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 

                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full 

        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes

        Speed: Unknown! (0)

        Duplex: Half

        Port: Twisted Pair

        PHYAD: 1

        Transceiver: internal

        Auto-negotiation: on

        Supports Wake-on: g

        Wake-on: d

        Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)

        Link detected: no

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