Re: Problem with mii-tool...
Hi Skylar,
On Sat, Dec 25 2004, Skylar Thompson wrote:
> Skylar Thompson wrote:
>
> >Norbert Gruener wrote:
> >
> >>It's kernel 2.4.27 which is part of Sarge.
> >>
> >>
> >Weird. A friend of mine has a Dell laptop with a Broadcom 4400 running
> >Debian Woody with the v2.4. I'll see if I can take a look at the boot
> >sequence when she's in town next week, and let you know what I see. I
> >don't remember seeing it, but I've never looked for it either.
> >
>
> I got a hold of the laptop, and noticed that error too. I upgraded it to
> v2.6, and still saw the error. It looks like it might be an issue with
> the NETDEV WATCHDOG (which I'm guessing reacts to state changes in the
> NIC). The state for the NIC when the driver is initially loaded is set
> to down, and it takes a few seconds for the watchdog to switch the state
> to up.
thank you for your effort. I really appreciated your help. I think I
got a feeling what is going wrong. So I will do some more testing.
Thank you very much,
Norbert
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