On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 13:02 -0500, Ken Siersma wrote:
I've installed SUSE 10.0 (OSS) on a dual opteron 250, 4 GB RAM, with a Tyan S2875 K8W Tiger motherboard. The onboard NIC is Intel Gigabit Ethernet. My kernel is 2.6.13-15-smp, and I have the e1000 module loaded without any options. When my network comes up, I see in my logs:
Nov 14 10:09:42 lincoln kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present Nov 14 10:09:50 lincoln kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Full Duplex
The network is obviously pretty slow with this setup. I've tried forcing the interface to 100BaseT full duplex (that's what my switch supports) by placing this in my /etc/modprobe.conf.local file:
options e1000 Duplex=2 Speed=100
The interface appears to come up in the logs I see:
Nov 14 10:22:29 lincoln kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 6.0.60-k2-NAPI Nov 14 10:22:29 lincoln kernel: Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation. Nov 14 10:22:29 lincoln kernel: e1000: 0000:02:03.0: e1000_check_copper_options: Forcing to 100 Mbps Full Duplex Nov 14 10:22:29 lincoln kernel: e1000: 0000:02:03.0: e1000_check_copper_options: Speed, AutoNeg and MDI-X specifications are incompatible. Setting MDI-X to a compatible value. Nov 14 10:22:29 lincoln kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
But, I can't access the network - i.e., ping by ipaddr gets me 'Destination Host Unreachable'
Can anyone offer advice? Thanks, Ken
This is most likely a switch issue. You will want to force the port on the switch to 100Mb from AUTO. It is not detecting the speed correctly. Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com