Re: [2.6.20] Regression in dmfe driver

From: Thierry Vignaud
Date: Tue Feb 06 2007 - 04:51:47 EST


Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Commit 7628b0a8c01a02966d2228bdf741ddedb128e8f8 (drivers/net/tulip/dmfe:
> support basic carrier detection) breaks networking on my Davicom DM9009.
> ethtool always reports there is no link. tcpdump shows incoming packets,
> but TX is disabled. Reverting the above patch fixes the problem.

disable link detection in your network config then (eg:
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes in ifcfg-XXX depending on the distro).
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