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Subject: Re: dmesg of 2.5.45 boot on NFS client
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:

| Addressing only this specific issue, and not the larger $thread issue...
|
| Depends on what driver and version you are using.  It is preferred these
| days to force the media using ethtool.

That's news to me.  "preferred" by whom?  certainly not by real users ??
It should just work.

| But that said, if a NIC driver
| allows you to force in 2.4 and not in 2.5, that definitely sounds like
| an eth driver bug.

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