[AG-TECH] Problems with Duplex Network settings for Dell server

Jeremy Mann jeremymann at gmail.com
Mon May 19 11:57:35 CDT 2008


On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Ben Green <ben.green at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

> ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed 10 duplex full autoneg off"
>
> I've made this permanent change to a couple of Dell workstations (one is i686/FC6, the other x86_64/Centos5) running Toolkit VenueServer and it works fine.
>
> However, when I do this on a Dell PowerEdge 1750 (RHEL3) the network device doesn't initialise on bootup. Having searched the boot.log files, it seems that kudzu stalls on bootup, and fails to initialise device eth0. As soon as I remove the above line from the ifcfg-eth0 file, kudzu is OK and the eth0 device initialises fine.

What network device driver?  Some NICs don't play nicely with ethtool.


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