well, an update. As it turns out, you CAN use ethtool to change the settings for the forcedeth driver, even though it says the supported ports are MII. I was able to turn off auto-neg and force the speed and duplex to the needed values and my network is up and running. Hopefully this helps someone. Matt Dittbenner wrote: > For those who don't want to read, how to I make mii-tool work with the > forcedeth driver? > > For those who want a bit of background: > > I'm currently running a reasonably recent version of Gentoo on one of > my machines. That machine has an nForce4 board with one of the 2 > network interfaces being the nForce one. I have had the forcedeth > kernel module installed for some time, but only brought the interface > up within the last 2 days. I've never really had any problems in the > past with that driver on any of my other machines (about 5) but for > some reason the link-speed autodetect isn't working. > > Here are some stats: > # uname -a > Linux silverback 2.6.15.1 #2 Fri Jun 9 09:02:28 CDT 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > > Jun 9 09:09:25 silverback forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.48. > Jun 9 09:09:25 silverback eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 010f1:2865 bound to 0000:00:0a.0 > > # ethtool eth0 > Settings for eth0: > Supported ports: [ MII ] > Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full > 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full > 1000baseT/Full > Supports auto-negotiation: Yes > Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full > 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full > 1000baseT/Full > Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes > Speed: 10Mb/s > Duplex: Half > Port: MII > PHYAD: 1 > Transceiver: externel > Auto-negotiation: on > Supports Wake-on: g > Wake-on: d > Link detected: no > # mii-tool -V > mii-tool.c 1.9 2000/04/28 00:56:08 (David Hinds) > > # mii-tool eth0 > SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported > > > According to my hosting provider, the port I'm on should be > 100baseTx/Full Duplex, but the auto-negotiation for some reason > selects 10Mb Half duplex. Obviously, that means the interface doesn't > get to be on the network... :(. As you can see, mii-tool isn't > working, so I can't manually set it to the correct speed and duplex. > > I'm pleading...does anyone have an nforce board and can they > successfully use mii-tool? If so, any help would be REALLY > appreciated. Even any pointers on how to manually set the link speed > or get auto-negotiate to work right. > > Thanks to you all in advance. > > > > <http://www.plaudit.com/> > Matt Dittbenner > *EMAIL* mbditt at plauditdesign.com <mailto:mbditt at plauditdesign.com> > *WEB* www.plauditdesign.com <http://www.plaudit.com/> > *PHONE* 651.646.0696 > *ADDRESS* 2470 University Ave. > > St. Paul, MN 55114 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- <http://www.plaudit.com/> Matt Dittbenner *EMAIL* mbditt at plauditdesign.com <mailto:mbditt at plauditdesign.com> *WEB* www.plauditdesign.com <http://www.plaudit.com/> *PHONE* 651.646.0696 *ADDRESS* 2470 University Ave. St. Paul, MN 55114 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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