Re: e1000/ICH8LAN weirdness - no ethtool link until initially forced up
- From: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 08:14:49 +0100
Hi!
[Please CC me on responses]....
A spot of weirdness I ran into on my e1000 card.
It's the 82566DC model [8086:104b] (rev 02) x1 PCIe.
After modprobe e1000, ethtool reports that there is no link, despite the
correct link lights on the port. This breaks booting during a boot process that
checks for actual link status before using a device.
This behavior differs from every other network card, and is also present in the
7.3* version of the driver from sourceforge.
I think the e1000 should try to raise the link during the probe, so that it
works properly, without having to set ifconfig ethX up first.
I think you should cc e1000 maintainers, and perhaps provide a patch....
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