Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 08:14:49 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e1000/ICH8LAN weirdness - no ethtool link until initially forced up
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Hi!

> [Please CC me on responses].
> 
> A spot of weirdness I ran into on my e1000 card.
> It's the 82566DC model [8086:104b] (rev 02) x1 PCIe.
> 
> After modprobe e1000, ethtool reports that there is no link, despite the
> correct link lights on the port. This breaks booting during a boot process that
> checks for actual link status before using a device.
...
> This behavior differs from every other network card, and is also present in the
> 7.3* version of the driver from sourceforge.
> 
> I think the e1000 should try to raise the link during the probe, so that it
> works properly, without having to set ifconfig ethX up first.

I think you should cc e1000 maintainers, and perhaps provide a patch....

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