Ethernet card, cable link state ?

Rodd Clarkson rodd at clarkson.id.au
Mon Mar 21 21:05:43 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 14:13 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:

> > [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.

So is this bugzilla fodder?


Rodd




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