[Techtalk] network failure help!

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 03:31:18AM +0530, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> On 13/05/04 07:30 +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> <snip>
> > 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.

Ah, yes, it usually works if one has tcpdump *installed*.  No wonder I
couldn't get it to work...
 
> > 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?

Or the desktop?

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