Subject: Re: [2.6.10-rc1-bk5] e1000 broken badly on IBM T42

From: Lee Revell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:51:50 -0400

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 05:21 -0400, Shawn Starr wrote:
> I should just answer it myself, restarting fixed the interface negotiation 
> 'blip'. Perhaps the driver somehow did not reset and retry negotiation?
> 
> That did look interesting though :)

AIUI it's impossible to do 100% reliable autonegotiation with Ethernet.
The best you can do is try to detect when you might have gotten it wrong
and reset the interface.

Lee