Bug 131163 - when eth1 up, eth0 down
Summary: when eth1 up, eth0 down
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John W. Linville
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-08-28 02:16 UTC by MF Lee
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-11-19 15:31:29 UTC
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Description MF Lee 2004-08-28 02:16:12 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I have a problem about the bcm5700 driver for setting speed to 
Gigabit.

I try input options to modules.conf as below.
alias eth0 bcm5700
alias eth1 bcm5700
options bcm5700 auto_speed=0,0 line_speed=1000,1000 full_duplex=1,1

everyone, I just active eth1 on boot up, it work. but I try to active 
eth1. The results is...
eth0 is down and linespeed auto switch to 100mb
eth1 is active and linespeed is 1G
 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.4.21-15.0.4.EL

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.eth1 up with speed 1000 
2.eth0 down
3.
    

Additional info:
Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2004-08-31 11:45:45 UTC 
reassigning to the kernel
Comment 2 John W. Linville 2004-10-21 14:38:49 UTC 
Lee,

Why are you using the bcm5700 driver?  Have you tried using the tg3
driver instead?
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