Re: Strange e1000

[Justin Cormack]

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 14:41, Paul Rolland wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > when I load the e1000 module, my NIC is recognized. Then, "pump -i 
> > eth0" is called (DHCP-Client), the message "e1000: eth0 NIC 
> > Link is Up 
> > 1000 Mbps Full Duplex" appears and after some time I get the message 
> > "operation failed".
> > 
> > When I sleep some time (currently 20 seconds) before doing 
> > the "pump", 
> > everything works as expected.
> > 
> > What the hell is happening here? Ok, I got it working with the 
> > 20-sec-sleep but this is not the way it sould work...
> > 
> > My Board is a Gigabyte GA-7ZXR (1.0) and the Intel NIC is a PRO/1000 
> > MT (should be the 82540OEM Chip). The NIC is attached to a NetGear 
> > FSM726S Switch (24x100 + 2x1000). It is currenty the only box 
> > attached 
> 
> Could it be possible that the 1000MBps FD on the e1000 side is
> a local configuration, and that it needs some time to discuss with
> the Netgear switch to negotiate correctly speed and duplex before 
> working correctly ? (i.e. 20 sec = negotiation time)

It is probably something like this. For some reason the managed Netgear
switches take a very long time to do anything. Log into the switch and
watch the port status while this happens to confirm. I actually can't
netboot off these switches because if this. Hopefully Netgear will come
up with a fix.

Justin