eth0 won't stay up
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Thu May 5 16:13:44 UTC 2005
jludwig wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 May 2005 02:13 pm, hanfamily at earthlink.net wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 4 May 2005, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>
>>>hanfamily at earthlink.net wrote:
>
> snip
>
>>>In the meantime, try "ethtool eth0 speed 100 duplex full" and see if
>>>that stops it.
>>
>>the log shows it is a RealTek RTL8139 (I can't find anything in the
>>paperwork just 10/100 T network interface and the machine is 30 min
>>away so it might be incorrect detection) I just have a hub no switch
>>so can't do anything on that side. The weird thing is it didn't do
>>this the first time I installed and xp overworte my grub setup. I'll
>>go try the ethtool after supper and see if it solves the problem.
>> Thanks
>> Linda
>
> With a hub replace full with half. I.E.
>
> On a xterm as root;
> [root at localhost root]# ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex half
> (Mr Stevens forgot the -s)
Doh! Yup, I sure did.
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