[Techtalk] network failure help!

[Devdas Bhagat]

On 13/05/04 07:30 +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
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> Thanks!  I've never heard of mii-tool before.
> I did a restart autonegotiation wit mii-tool but that didn't work.
> I was going to ask you how to do a tcpdump, but since the mii-tool told
#/usr/sbin/tcpdump -e -nn -i eth0
usually works.

> me what speeds both interfaces were capable of, I thought I'd try the
> "force" option to set the highest common speed -- and that seemed to
> work.  It still doesn't tell me why autonegotiation failed, though.
Something in the defaults changed for the laptop?

Devdas Bhagat