[Techtalk] network failure help!

[Devdas Bhagat]

On 12/05/04 20:45 +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
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> This is the output of "ifconfig" at the moment (ppp0 is up because I'm
> dialled in right now)
Desktop? Laptop?

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> This is the output of "dmesg | grep eth0"
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xc8933000, 00:02:e3:1f:d9:b4, IRQ 10.
> eth0: autonegotiation did not complete in 4000 usec.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
You can force autonegotiation with mii-tool.
A tcpdump of network traffic during autonegotiation might help.
This type of problem usually occurs if one of the interfaces involved is
set at a different speed from the other.

Devdas Bhagat