Ethernet card, cable link state ?
Nils Philippsen
nphilipp at redhat.com
Mon Mar 21 13:13:49 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 21:25 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 09:25 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:
>
> > please verify what ethtool reports when the cable isn't plugged in (and
> > mii-tool while you're at it). If the hardware doesn't tell the software
> > that the cable's not plugged in, there's not much we can do...
>
> [root at localhost ~]# mii-tool eth0
> No MII transceiver present!.
> [root at localhost ~]# ethtool eth0
> Settings for eth0:
> Cannot get device settings: Resource temporarily unavailable
> Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
> Link detected: yes
> [root at localhost ~]#
So this seems to be a bug in the driver or below (hardware), though the
"Cannot get device settings: Resource temporarily unavailable" message
indicates some other problem(s) as well... strange.
Nils
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