Re: forcedeth ethernet driver & Low power state

[Robert Hancock]

Jeroen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm migrating my server from windows 2003 server to Ubuntu, but I am
> stumbling over the "Low Power State Link Speed" option for my NIC
> (forcedeth)
>
> I need to disable this option in my windows driver otherwise the trough pout is
> horrible because the link fluctuates constantly from 100/1000.
>
> Anyway, my question is where and how can I turn off this feature for the
> forcedeth driver? I've looked in the source and as far as I can tell there is no
> bootoption for this. There are some references noted in the code, but AFAIK
> no setting.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Are you sure forcedeth even supports that feature? I haven't seen any 
code for it, and certainly it should never be enabled by default..

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