[CentOS] C5 64-bit on Dell not seeing 1 GB link

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 at 9:56pm, Scott Ehrlich wrote

> I've got a Dell Precision Workstation 490 with 64-bit Centos 5, fully 
> updated, with an on-board Broadcom 57xx gigabit Ethernet controller, updated 
> BIOS, 1 GB switch, and /var/log/messages and dmesg both claim the link is 100 
> Mb, not 1 GB.
>
> I tried setting eth0 to mtu 9000 but got an error in going so.
>
> What do I need to do to have the card see 1 gb?
>
> Thanks.

I'm seeing the same problem on some (well, all but one of my) 32bit IBM 
xSeries 335 machines.  They're all connected to Foundry switches, though 
not all the same switch.  I'm wondering if it has to do with 
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=330181>.  There are some test 
packages listed in that bugzilla...

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Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF