8139too Ethernet Woes

[Bob Chiodini]

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 08:21, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Bob Chiodini wrote:
> > I can generally ssh into my home machine from work, but with FC3 I'm
> > seeing the following in /var/log/messages:
> > 
> > Nov 19 07:01:38 littlenail kernel: eth0: link down
> > Nov 19 07:01:40 littlenail kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
> > Nov 19 07:01:53 littlenail kernel: eth0: link down
> > Nov 19 07:01:55 littlenail kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
> > 
> > The ssh session usually recovers.  I saw these messages in FC2 as well,
> > but they did not seem as detrimental.  Yum rarely recovers, at least not
> > within my patience level.
> > 
> > The driver loaded for the Ethernet interface is 8139too.  Upstream is a
> > DLink DI-624.  Any insight?
> 
> Looks like Ethernet problems to me. Can you try setting the Ethernet
> link to 10 Mbit/s half duplex? 100 Mbit/s half duplex? (I have seen
> Ethernet autoconfiguration cause major problems in the past).
> 
> Use the ethtool command with the -s flag to play around with this: man
> ethtool for more details. But I'd recommend:
> ethtool eth0
> to see current settings,
> 
> ethtool -s eth0 [speed 10|100|1000] [duplex half|full] [autoneg on|off]
> 
> It might yet be dodgy cables.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> James.


James,

Thanks.

I'll give ethtool try when I get home,  in case I cut off my own arm.

It would be interesting to know the definition of the lpa bits.

Bob...
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