Ethernet card, cable link state ?

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> 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?

Most definitely, assign it to "kernel" component, and make sure you include the 
output of "lspci" and "lsmod" so that we can find out exactly what network card 
you have and what driver you're using.

Dan