On Wednesday, October 09, 2013 08:18:30 PM Per Jessen wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I am sort of at wit's end here. Things simply do not act as I expect.
If I connect three cables to the NIC,
You are able to fit three cables into _one_ port? That may be the key issue here :-)
I see the lights on those light up as expected when the system is powered on. They stay lit until the kernel starts. At that time, some of them turn off. They should not do this.
You have two on-board NICs and a four-port card, right? I agree that none of them should change the "cable-connected" LED regardless of what the kernel does. Which ports are affected and how?
The status (e.g., NO_CARRIER) shown by 'ip addr' seems not to match what I see in the NIC LEDs. For example, if I see two NIC with proper lights, I would expect to see two interfaces listed as having a physical connection. I do not.
Try using "ethtool" to ascertain the connection status.
On ports where the cable and connection on the switch are known to work and the NIC is not lit, ethtool reports: Link detected: no The LEDs on these ports are lit when the computer is powered on. They get turned off when the kernel boots. Could this have something to do with the feature I just noticed in YaST that will blink the NIC LEDs to help you identify them? (I am not doing this.) Of course, the LEDs are not really my concern. I just want the NIC to work consistently. There are some ports where the LEDs are on, but ethtool reports no link detected. This is this way with the current oS12.3 kernel, as well as the newer one in Kernel:/stable/standard I can't see that it makes any difference if the cable is connected when the system is powered on. -- Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer Ramböll RST / Systems Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org