ale(4) cannot negotiate as GigE

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 5 08:06:21 UTC 2013


On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 04:43:15PM +0900, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> > > Could you disable WOL before rebooting your box?
> > 
> > # ifconfig ale0 -wol
> > # reboot
> > 
> > It came up as 100baseTX. :(
> 
> You don't use any manual link configuration, right?

Right, everything is auto (that is, the defaults).

> When you see the controller established a 100Mbps link, how about
> restarting auto-negotiation? Does that also result in 100Mbps link?

# ifconfig ale0 media auto
# ifconfig ale0 | egrep -v ether\|inet
ale0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=c319a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active

Tried a few times, no difference.

./danfe


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