On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 07:25:20 -0800
buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org (Brian Buhrow) wrote:

> 	Hello.  This is an excellent suggestion.  Unfortunately, in
> this case, it doesn't seem to work.  I have a feeling that the chip
> is either mis-reporting link state, or the driver is not interpreting
> the chip's state correctly.  

For fun, you may want to boot a Knoppix CD and see if it talks.  That
will rule out certain hardware issues.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb