ale(4) cannot negotiate as GigE

[YongHyeon PYUN]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 08:06:20AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, Does the switch support EEE feature? If yes, would you try
disabling it?

> 
> ./danfe