Ethernet card, cable link state ?

[Nils Philippsen]

Rodd,

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 10:17 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:

> I've just moved from a Compaq Armada to a Dell Latitude and one of the
> first things I noticed was that during boot-up the network card in the
> Dell seems to think it's 'plugged-in' even when there is no cable there.
> 
> For example, when the compaq booted, it would note that there was no
> cable connected and just move on (instead of stalling while trying to
> start a netword card that wasn't connected).  The Dell, however, stalls
> for a while, trying to establish the impossible (a wired connection
> without a cable).
> 
> Is this a bug, and if so, should it be reported?  The wired connection
> (when I've used it) seems to work well, although I haven't given it
> anything stressful to really test it.

please verify what ethtool reports when the cable isn't plugged in (and
mii-tool while you're at it). If the hardware doesn't tell the software
that the cable's not plugged in, there's not much we can do...

Nils
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