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[Bruce Hyatt]

 --- On Wed 01/25, Steven Ringwald < asric at asric.com > wrote:
From: Steven Ringwald [mailto: asric at asric.com]
To: bjhyatt at myway.com
     Cc: fedora-list at redhat.com
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:29:06 -0800
Subject: Re: (no subject)

Bruce Hyatt wrote:> --- On Wed 01/25, Steven Ringwald < asric at asric.com > wrote:> From: Steven Ringwald [mailto: asric at asric.com]> To: bjhyatt at myway.com, fedora-list at redhat.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:16:28 -0800> Subject: Re: (no subject)>>   >> What does `miitool eth0` show? I have had some weird problems where >the card would get stuck in non-auto-negotiating mode, and neither >end could agree on anything.Mine says that it is in 100Mb/s Full, MII >and that a link is detected...Steve>>     >> I can't find any such command.>> Bruce Hyatt wrote:> I am trying to get connected to the internet through Comcast highspeed and> I'm having some trouble.>> I think the problem is that the ethernet card is assigned IRQ 15 but the> driver is assigned IRQ 11. When I try to use 'ifconfig eth0 IRQ 11' it> returns 'irq: SIOCSIFMAP: Operation not supported.'>> Relevant data:>> FC2> Netinity 4500R (therefore the smp kernel)> eth0 is Intel Pro/100 (also tried Fast III 79c975)> Kernel 2.6 no!
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updated yet> Motorola surfboard modem. (I use it for windows connection so the> connection is up.)>> I got the card to show as 'Active' the first I tried but couldn't get on> the net. Since then, it won't activate.>> ifconfig shows rx & tx with 3 errors and no drops.>>>   > ( Comcast uses DHCP servers and the card must be configured to use DHCP > -- I also have Comcast-- );>> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _>>> That's the problem. It can't obtain an IP address. It's set up to use DHCP.>>

> Sorry. It has been a long day. The command is actually 'ethtool', 
> and is located in the /sbin directory./sbin/ethtool eth0
> 
> Steve


It shows:

Auto-negotiation: on
100 Mb/s
full duplex
Lin detected: yes

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