[ale] ethtool advertised link modes

[Ryan Fish]

Can autoneg be set to yes while there is no link present on the NIC?



-----Original Message-----
From: James P. Kinney III [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:27 PM
To: FishR at bellsouth.net; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] ethtool advertised link modes

> 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.
>
>

eth2 is also set to not support auto negotiate. That may block the
advertise setting to a lower mode.

>
> Thank you.
>
> -Ryan
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> 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
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> 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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