[Voyage-linux] eth0 No link problem

[Punky Tse]

I think your problem is slightly off-topic. But anyway, did you try 
different cable?

- Punky

Tommaso wrote:
>
> I’m sorry to overload the mailing list with all those problems, but I 
> keep discovering them as long as I use different configurations for my 
> Access Point.
>
> While I was trying to solve the problem of the Point-to-Point 
> connection I have connected the Wrap to a PC with Debian and, to my 
> surprise, I got “no link” over eth0: the Ethernet traffic led of both 
> Wrap and PC were dead. I said surprisingly because with my laptop and 
> it’s Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet card all works fine: as soon 
> as I plug the Ethernet connector the link is up and running at 100Mbit 
> Full Duplex. I tried to modify the settings of the eth0 interface of 
> the PC, I set the autonegotiation onor off, I fixed the speed, but 
> nothing worked, I even tried to play with the wake-on-lan parameter 
> but it didn’t worked.
>
> I tried the Ethernet cards of another laptop and two PCs with Windows 
> XP but they keep saying the Ethernet cable was disconnected and the 
> mii-tool on the WRAP reported “no link”.
>
> I play a bit with my laptop Ethernet card and I discovered that if I 
> try to change the speed while the card is activated I get the “no 
> link” on the Ethernet, but, if I change that speed while the card is 
> deactivated, once I activated it again I get the eth0 “link up”.
>
> Sincerely it’s a very strange behaviour, maybe someone has already 
> coped with this problem; I hope.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tommaso
>
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