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For those who don't want to read, how to I make mii-tool work with the
forcedeth driver?<br>
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For those who want a bit of background:<br>
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I'm currently running a reasonably recent version of Gentoo on one of
my machines. That machine has an nForce4 board with one of the 2
network interfaces being the nForce one. I have had the forcedeth
kernel module installed for some time, but only brought the interface
up within the last 2 days. I've never really had any problems in the
past with that driver on any of my other machines (about 5) but for
some reason the link-speed autodetect isn't working.<br>
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Here are some stats:<br>
<pre># uname -a
Linux silverback 2.6.15.1 #2 Fri Jun 9 09:02:28 CDT 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Jun 9 09:09:25 silverback forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.48.
Jun 9 09:09:25 silverback eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 010f1:2865 bound to 0000:00:0a.0
# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 10Mb/s
Duplex: Half
Port: MII
PHYAD: 1
Transceiver: externel
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: g
Wake-on: d
Link detected: no
# mii-tool -V
mii-tool.c 1.9 2000/04/28 00:56:08 (David Hinds)
# mii-tool eth0
SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported
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According to my hosting provider, the port I'm on should be
100baseTx/Full Duplex, but the auto-negotiation for some reason selects
10Mb Half duplex. Obviously, that means the interface doesn't get to be
on the network... :(. As you can see, mii-tool isn't working, so I
can't manually set it to the correct speed and duplex.<br>
<br>
I'm pleading...does anyone have an nforce board and can they
successfully use mii-tool? If so, any help would be REALLY appreciated.
Even any pointers on how to manually set the link speed or get
auto-negotiate to work right.<br>
<br>
Thanks to you all in advance.<br>
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