Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:36:37 -0600
From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: forcedeth ethernet driver & Low power state
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To: Jeroen <j.geusebroek@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Jeroen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm migrating my server from windows 2003 server to Ubuntu, but I am
> stumbling over the "Low Power State Link Speed" option for my NIC
> (forcedeth)
> 
> I need to disable this option in my windows driver otherwise the trough pout is
> horrible because the link fluctuates constantly from 100/1000.
> 
> Anyway, my question is where and how can I turn off this feature for the
> forcedeth driver? I've looked in the source and as far as I can tell there is no
> bootoption for this. There are some references noted in the code, but AFAIK
> no setting.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Are you sure forcedeth even supports that feature? I haven't seen any 
code for it, and certainly it should never be enabled by default..

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