Re: Integrated Broadcom nic on Dell times out with dhcp

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Pete Harlan wrote:

> > and get a DHCP address, but the network remains broken with errors such as:
> > b44: eth0: Link is down
> > b44: eth0: Link is up at 10 Mbps, half duplex.
> > b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
> >    
>
> [...]
>
>  
>
> > Using the default interface 'eth0'.
> > Basic registers of MII PHY #1:  1000 782d 0040 6360 0de1 0021 0004 2001.
> > Basic mode control register 0x1000: Auto-negotiation enabled.
> > You have link beat, and everything is working OK.
> > Your link partner is generating 10baseT link beat   (no autonegotiation).
> >   End of basic transceiver information.
> >    
>
> Have you tried using mii-tool to set speed and duplex, rather than
> letting it get auto-negotiated?  The description above says "(no
> autonegotiation)" but you've got auto-negotiation enabled for the
> card.
>  

# mii-tool
SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported
no MII interfaces found

# mii-diag
Using the default interface 'eth0'.
Basic registers of MII PHY #1: 1000 782d 0040 6360 0de1 0021 0004 2001.
Basic mode control register 0x1000: Auto-negotiation enabled.
You have link beat, and everything is working OK.
Your link partner is generating 10baseT link beat (no autonegotiation).
  End of basic transceiver information.


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Kent West (westk@acu.edu)