Description of problem: On a Broadcom Netextreme card I can neither see nor set the speed/duplex. The card is working, just not with the settings it should be. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ethtool-6-1.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ethtool eth1 2. ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off duplex full speed 100 3. ethtool eth1 Actual results: Settings for eth1: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: Not reported Advertised auto-negotiation: No ** Speed: Unknown! (0) ** Duplex: Half Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: off Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: d Link detected: yes Expected results: Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: Not reported Advertised auto-negotiation: No ** Speed: 100Mb/s ** Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: off Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: d Current message level: 0x000000ff (255) Link detected: yes Additional info: lspci on the failed card says: 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) On a different server we have a similar card: 03:06.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15) which works fine with ethtool-5-1.fc7
We had something similar with rev 12 some years ago already; https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=112449 - adding the kernel guys, as it also could be some kernel driver issue depending on the hardware revision.
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