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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Error using mii-tool on 2.6-test, 2.4 okay
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:07:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030716140753.GA5628@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030716125213.GA6582@rivenstone.net>

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:52:14AM -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote:
> 
> 	I've just switched another of my boxes over to 2.6-test; so
> far, I've had only one problem -- attempts to force the network card
> (tulip-based) to full-duplex with mii-tool fail with:
> 
> SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported
> no MII interfaces found
> 
>        The same command works fine in 2.4.  This the packaged mii-tool
> in Debian unstable (1.9 2000/04/28).  I've tried rebuilding the
> package on another very similar machine, but the error remains.
> Ethtool also doesn't work, but I'm not sure it did with 2.4 and this
> card either.

Get the latest mii-tool (possibly from cvs).  The one in Debian
unstable doesn't use the official MII ioctls.


> Are mii-tool and CONFIG_MII mutually exclusive?

No.

	Jeff




      reply	other threads:[~2003-07-16 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-16 12:52 Error using mii-tool on 2.6-test, 2.4 okay Joseph Fannin
2003-07-16 14:07 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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