Johan wrote
It was me who did that posting on that issue ......
it would be nice to know what motherboard and chipset plus which controller-chip is used for the lan
Supermicro 370SSM Intel8215 based, with PCI 8255x Ethernet Pro 100 NIC (offboard).
ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off duplex full rmmod e100; modprobe e100
Did try out you suggested fix. please watch the result below
B2:/home/b2 # rmmod e1000; modprobe e1000 B2:/home/b2 # ethtool eth0
I'm using an e100 not an e1000. As I said, ethtool did work for me. But, I found that not only was it necessary to reload the e100.o module, I also had to do this a couple of times or put a sleep in between the unload and reload: ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off duplex full modprobe -r e100; sleep 2; modprobe e100 Here's the output: Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: No Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: off Supports Wake-on: d Wake-on: d Current message level: 0x00000007 (7) Link detected: yes So I've got it working, once booted but not during boot. I could edit the init.d scripts and insert the ethtool command as required but these could easily get replaced by a YaST update. I could use boot.local but that gets run too late! Regards -- Simon Oliver