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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:41:53
Message-Id: 200703201810.14017.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points by Uwe Thiem
1 On Wednesday 14 March 2007 16:02, Uwe Thiem wrote:
2 > On 14 March 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3
4 > > With a static ip, I do get full bandwidth, error free, just like it
5 > > should be. So whatever this cabling issue is, it affects only bootp...
6 > >
7 > > hardware: Dell Latitude D810:
8 > > NIC: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751
9 > > Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
10 >
11 > Have you tried to force your NIC down to 100Mb/s early in the boot process?
12 > Assuming your network is FastEthernet, autonegotiation doesn't always work
13 > properly.
14
15 How would you do that - can you please elaborate?
16 --
17 Regards,
18 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>