Re: TG3 doesn't work in kernel 2.4.27 (David S. Miller)

[Roland Dreier]

    Brian> The problem seems to be that autoneg is disabled on the IBM
    Brian> switches.  After disabling autoneg on the Sun shelf
    Brian> switches, I see the problem.  This patch fixes things by
    Brian> reverting to sw autoneg which defaults to a
    Brian> 1000Mbps/full-duplex link but with no flow control when it
    Brian> fails (IBM should really have autoneg enabled!) - I'd
    Brian> appreciate it if someone could test this against an IBM
    Brian> blade.

Yes, 2.6.8.1 with this patch works for me on a JS20.  There is a pause
of maybe 20 seconds when the interface is brough up (while hardware
autoneg times out?) and then the network comes up (and serial-over-lan
recovers).

Unfortunately this patch doesn't apply to the latest bk (3.9) tg3 driver.

Thanks,
  Roland
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