Bug 674475 - "autoneg off" is inserted automatically in ETHTOOL_OPT by --ethtool kickstart option with autoneg
Summary: "autoneg off" is inserted automatically in ETHTOOL_OPT by --ethtool kickstart...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: doc-Installation_Guide
Version: 5.6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Ruediger Landmann
QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-02 03:46 UTC by Masahiro Matsuya
Modified: 2012-04-13 01:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-04-13 01:09:50 UTC
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Description Masahiro Matsuya 2011-02-02 03:46:48 UTC 
Description of problem:

In installation guide of rhel5:
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31.4. Kickstart Options
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network (optional) 
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--ethtool= — Specifies additional low-level settings for the network device which will be passed to the ethtool program. 
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A customer want to add the following statement in this.

  When 'autoneg' is not specified, "autoneg off" is inserted automatically.

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RHEL5 Installation Guide
Comment 1 Ruediger Landmann 2011-07-21 02:13:30 UTC 
Thanks Masahiro -- fixed in build 3.1-16
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